my experience at porting some code to core

[Yaron Minsky]

The docs are available here:

https://ocaml.janestreet.com/ocaml-core/108.07.01/doc/

and come out with each new release.  They're not perfect, but they're there.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Francois Berenger
<francois.berenger.working at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The project is about 3k LoC, one man.
> I removed dependency to batteries, the standard library and
> some ugly macros I had for logging.
>
> I had to:
> - add a lot of labels
> - use Float.XXX instead of *float* from the std lib
> - code BatString.tail
> - code BatString.starts_with
> - code a kind of BatOption.get
> - do a lot of code re-reading to make sure I preserve semantic
>
> I'm starting a new project, so I am OK to break things,
> I just want all things to compile for the moment.
> There will be some scientific validation of the results later on.
>
> I didn't adopt core's Hashtbl yet.
> A little because I am lazy, a little because I am annoyed
> by some signature changes (for example: find) that would force me
> to update a lot of my code.
>
> It was not so funny to do but I hope it will pay-off in the future.
> I started this on Monday and was about 60% of the time on it.
> I might start to use labels more in my own code.
>
> I already miss the ocamldoc from batteries, which is quite complete
> and nice.
>
> The most difficult part is code re-reading I think.
> Sometimes also, compiler parsing errors because of missing labels
> are not so trivial to understand.
>
> Regards,
> F.
>