Hello, @d-plaindoux and @pytre and I are very happy to present Preface, a project that has occupied part of our free time for almost 2 years. We received a lot of help from various people (as mentioned in the CREDITS page), including some present on this forum ( @gasche , @octachron and @snowleopard )…

[image] xvw: Is Preface useful Since OCaml allows for efficient imperative programming, Preface is probably not really useful for building software. Hello, I stumbled upon your project by accident (spamming Google then getting back to some open tabs weeks later :upside_down_face:) I’m puzzle…

First of all, thank you for your interest and your feedback. Indeed, the words in the preamble are a little harsh. I think we chose them because, unlike Haskell, the OCaml community generally uses a fairly small set of abstractions (with a few exceptions). After several years, even though the main…

Great, I’ll be on the look out then :slight_smile: I haven’t dug into the alternative standard libraries yet, sounds appealing though! I’m quite interested in learning more functional idioms so it’d be great if I could explore those within the bounds of OCaml. Haskell does interest me too, but I …

[ANN] Preface (initial release)

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jhw April 13, 2021, 5:26pm 2

Very nice! I’ll be interested to see how this develops.

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[ANN] Preface (initial release)

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