Is there an “OCaml by Example” book/tutorial somewhere? I’m familiar with Rust/Clojure and want to learn OCaml syntax by typing lots of OCaml examples, trying to run the code, and fixing any typos.

[image] zeroexcuses: something that intends to explain OCaml syntax / features one by one, by examples. Having a cursory look at the rust book you have provided I think the closest you can get to this is John Whitington’s series of books starting with OCaml from the Very Beginning . His books…

Maybe you’re looking for Yaron Minsky’s Real World Ocaml book?

A bit OT, but please be careful with RosettaCode. It contains plain wrong information about OCaml which hasn’t been corrected for years. If anyone on this forum has an account there please correct it, there’s a discussion about this here (see my answer).

Could you explain what is wrong there, we still get the same result with a recent version of OCaml.

My answer on stackoverflow explains what is wrong. I won’t repeat it here.

[image] dbuenzli: My answer on stackoverflow explains what is wrong. I won’t repeat it here. Sorry but I don’t understand your post on stackoverflow, I don’t find your explanation very clear, so maybe someone else could explain it here? Also I’m not sure to understand is it really “plain wro…

I’ve been meaning to make one for a while. Past year I wrote the first chapters as a blog post series, but then life happened™. Until life happens again in September, perhaps I can make a few more. I’ve made an initial import to git ( https://github.com/dmbaturin/ocaml-book/ ) and uploaded a rough, n…

[image] fccm: Sorry but I don’t understand your post on stackoverflow, I don’t find your explanation very clear, so maybe someone else could explain it here? Maybe the explanation is not clear but if would have to write it again I would write exactly the same, sorry. It’s difficult to help if…

Was it ever true, or it has been wrong all along?

It doesn’t mentions pattern matching but functions returning tuples (at least as long as what I can understand). found this , so it seems that this problem was fixed with OCaml version 4.00.0

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dbuenzli July 21, 2019, 1:08pm 14

To be honest, I don’t know but I highly suspect that what I wrote in the answer has always been true (cf. also the “worrying comment” above that mentions pattern matching, not tuples in general).

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