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Over the weekend, I decided to extend my Box tool to incorporate file upload. There is a straightforward POST API for this with a curl one-liner given in the Box documentation. Easy.
OCaml is famous for allow you to do a lot of things like modules. Like really a lot! Advanced features like functors, aside, it’s really common to either alias module names to something shorter or localize open Module_name to a smaller scope:
In my previous article I mentioned that OCaml’s Stdlib leaves a lot to be desire when it comes to regular expressions. One thing I didn’t discuss back then was that the problem is somewhat mitigated by the excellent module Scanf, which makes it easy to parse structured data.
One of the things that bothered me initially in OCaml was the poor support for working in regular expressions in the standard library. Technically speaking, there’s no support for them at all!
It’s Tuesday morning, and virtually all opam repo ci jobs are failing with timeouts. This comes at a critical time as these are the first jobs following the update of ocurrent/ocaml-version noted on 24th March.
