I recently spent several days improving the OCaml FreeTDS C bindings for work, and I thought it might be useful to share the problems I ran into and how to solve them.
I tried to order things so the most likely issues are listed first, but if you're …
Core.Command (and the closely-related Async.Command) is an OCaml library for creating command line programs with nice interfaces (including help text and argument parsing). This article is an overview of Command.Param, the newer interface for defining your command's arguments (replacing Command.Spec).
This article is not exhaustive …
This is a short post to document an issue we ran into at work so it will show up in search results for people who have this problem in the future.
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I recently finished a basic XLSX reader for OCaml and I thought it would be a good time to summarize what's necessary to make a library like this, since the documentation is complicated and sometimes hard to find.
If you're planning to read XLSX files, you probably want …
My recent post about OCaml inline operators had a section about the monad operators, but I think it would also be useful to talk about what a monad is, and what map and bind actually do.
From a non-theoretical engineer perspective, a monad is a kind of …