OCaml newbie here - coming from Haskell land out of curiosity. I’m interested how you guys find your way around stdlib/packages etc? Example: I’m writing a script and I want to lookup an environment variable. I know there’s probably some function along the lines of get_env somewhere, so I’d like …

Thanks for this useful question! I am curious (if you feel comfortable sharing) your interest in approaching OCaml via Haskell. What do you feel are some of OCaml’s advantages for your use case?

Thanks for this! I’d like to see odig support some sort of search functionality, that would really help someone like myself get orientated quicker.

At the moment I don’t have a use case in mind - I’ve just heard good things about ocaml and I’m curious to explore more. The language certainly has some cool features I’d like to have in Haskell (module functors, polymorphic variants, labelled arguments…etc), and without the zoo of extensions and ex…

[image] jmackie: Thanks for this! I’d like to see odig support some sort of search functionality, I’d like to add that at some point aswell, but don’t hold your breath for now. A low effort improvement with great usability returns would be for odoc to at least generate per package index page…

It would definitely be nice to have something like hoogle, with global function name and type signature search. Elm has something like that as well.

Merlin has a search feature, :MerlinSearch in vim or M-x merlin-search in emacs. The command takes a query which is a list of type names prefixed by - or +: - for the type of values you have and the function you are looking for can consume + for values you would like to get. For instance, :Mer…

That’s really cool. I’d like to play around with it on the command line, are there any docs? I looked at https://github.com/ocaml/merlin/blob/master/doc/dev/PROTOCOL.md and ran ocamlmerlin single -commands-help, but not seeing anything about a search functionality.

Never mind, I figured it out :slight_smile: echo '\n' | ocamlmerlin single search-by-polarity -position 0 -query "-int +string" | less Output is JSON, so would look better with some formatting: echo '\n' | ocamlmerlin single search-by-polarity -position 0 -query "-int +string" | jq . | less

Here are two small bash/zsh functions building on @yawaramin ’s work that might be useful. They will display a list of functions + the signatures. ocs will only display the first 10 because I don’t always want to fill my screen where as osca will list them all. ocs () { echo '\n' | ocamlmerlin singl…

Fantastic! Minor quibble, but I’d use : instead of = to separate the name and type. Also another option for the output is to pipe to less.

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Even if the project looks asleep, it may be interesting to mention it here : https://github.com/camlspotter/ocamloscope.2.

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