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More type classes in OCaml

More type classes in OCaml More type classes Author: Joel Björnson About the author: Joel has been enjoying functional programming ...

22 May 2017

Shayne Fletcher

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Proving a mem/map property

Here are two well known "classic" functions over polymorphic lists. map f l computes a ne...

11 May 2017

Shayne Fletcher

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new opam features: more expressive dependencies

This blog will cover yet another aspect of the improvements opam 2.0 has over opam 1.2. I may be a little more technical than previous issues, as it covers a feature directed specifically at packagers and repository maintainers, and regarding the package definition format. Specifying dependencies in...

11 May 2017

OCamlPro

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When Bash Scripts Bite

There are abundant resources online trying to scare programmers away from usingshell scripts. Most of them, if anything, succeed in convincing the reader tob...

11 May 2017

Jane Street Tech Blog

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Preprocessor extensions for code generation

PPX Preprocessor extensions for code generation "A Guide to Extension Points in OCaml"[1] provides a great "quic...

04 May 2017

Shayne Fletcher

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new opam features: "opam install DIR"

After the opam build feature was announced followed a lot of discussions, mainly having to do with its interface, and misleading name. The base features it offered, though, were still widely asked for: a way to work directly with the project in the current directory, assuming it contains definitions...

04 May 2017

OCamlPro

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Looking for a technical writer

Update: I’m excited to say that we’ve now hired a (great!) technicalwriter, so the position is closed.

01 May 2017

Jane Street Tech Blog

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