RE: [Caml-list] poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book

["MikhailFedotov" <mikhail@kittown.com>]

Hi!

> > [reposting, as the first one didn't seem to go through]
> >
> > There seems to me clearly, a lack of a good, tutorial style,
> > introductory book about OCaml in English.  Something akin to
> > ``Programming Perl'' (as someone mentioned).
> > (...)
>
> Mind explaining what's wrong with ``Developing Applications
> in Ocaml'' ?

The introductory part of reference manual reads easier. And there
is a bug too in the book (at least one, I don't know if there are more):

# let test_nul_integer = function `Number n -> n=0
  and test_nul_real = function `Number r -> r=0.0 ;;
  val test_nul_integer : [< `Number of int] -> bool = <fun>
  val test_nul_real : [< `Number of float] -> bool = <fun>
# let test_nul x = (test_nul_integer x) || (test_nul_real x) ;;

(the next line is wrong - ocaml 3.06 won't allow this):

   val test_nul : [< `Number of float & int] -> bool = <fun>

Reference manual explains where is the bug...

Mikhail



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