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Format strings in OCaml

OCAML doesn't have string interpolation, but it does have C-style format strings (but type-safe)....

25 Feb 2024

Yawar Amin

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Learning OCaml: Quoted String Literals

While learning OCaml I’ve noticed one curious feature - it has two types of string literals. The first type are the common and quite familiar “double-quoted string literals” (or perhaps simply “string literals”?):

20 Apr 2023

Bozhidar Batsov

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Half-baked ideas: C strings with implicit length field

For more half-baked ideas, see the ideas tag. If you prefer just to see the code, then it’s here. Chris Siebenmann wrote a couple of interesting articles about C’s null terminated strin…

08 Jan 2016

Richard Jones

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ocamljs 0.3

I am happy to announce version 0.3 of ocamljs. Ocamljs is a system for compiling OCaml to Javascript. It includes a Javascript back-end for ...

26 Aug 2010

Jake Donham

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