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When I started to play with OCaml I was kind of surprised that there was no id (identity) function that was available out-of-box (in Stdlib module, that’s auto-opened). A quick search lead me to the Fun module, which is part of the standard library and is nested under Stdlib. It was introduced in OCaml 4.08, alongside other modules such as Int, Result and Option.1 It was part of some broader efforts to slim down Stdlib and move in the direction of a more modular standard library. ↩
The FUN OCaml conference is an OCaml conference by developers for developers focussing on workshops, talks, and networking.
Beta had a funny joke at POPL last year; he said: “you exit a monad like you exit a building on fire: by running”. I recently got myself in the stressful situation of being trapped in a monad—…
In October, I publicized here a new draft on normalization by evaluation, which provoked some very helpful comments and constructive criticisms. Together with Chantal and Olivier, we thus revised t…
Protobuf is an Ocaml library for communicating with Google's protobuf format. It provides a method for writing parsers and builders. Ther...
