01:16 <sabetts2> stoners.

02:32 <Aradorn> you know there arnt many jobs for ocaml people

02:33 <Aradorn> im really starting to like the langauge, kinda sucks that more people dont use it so i could enhance my skills.

02:34 <lispy> when you get away from the main stream languages typically the only time you'll use them in a job setting is if you're in charge of a project and you have the freedom to pick the language

02:34 <lispy> although, galois uses haskell professional

02:35 <sabetts2> arn't ocaml hackers professional stoners?

02:35 <Aradorn> my "company" is using ocaml for our clustering architechture which is neat, but im not doing much of the coding atm

02:35 <Aradorn> i have a code monkey churning out most the code =p

02:46 <Aradorn> "the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers." heh there was a siminar on this at the Southeastern Regional ICPC this past weekend

07:46 <Revision17> umm, what's the ocaml keyword for "and"? and doesn't seem to be it

07:48 <Submarine> &&

07:48 <Revision17> ah thanks; I normally wouldn't ask, but i have an assignment due in 10 minutes I put off

07:51 <mellum> Revision17: You can easily code one yourself ;)

08:01 <ChipsterOne> salut tout le monde

13:01 <Aradorn> ok i want to use a triple that contains 3 properties: A starting state which is a string, a char, and the top of a stack which should be a char. I want to write a function that takes this as a param and then returns a tuple when matched wtih the correct rule. Whats the best way to go about doing this?

13:02 <Aradorn> Should I declare my own type trans_function which is a triple and pass that to the function? And have that matched with the correct rule, or can you do match statements against an entire triple/

13:12 <mellum> I don't understand. What is the meaning of the string? What is the meaning of the returned tuple?

13:12 <mellum> And you can certainly match triples.

13:12 <Aradorn> heh im writing a Push Down Automaton

13:13 <mellum> Whether you should declare a type probably depends on whether that type makes sense.

13:13 <mellum> Oh. Then you want a list instead of a string.

13:13 <mellum> And you want an enumeration type instead of char for states.

13:13 <Aradorn> explain... (im still learning here =P) I know lists are very powerful in ocaml but why here?

13:14 <mellum> Because it's easier to do matching with them, and you can use functional programming techniques.

13:14 <Aradorn> k

13:15 <Aradorn> So i want to use an enumeration type, list, and a stack of chars - right?

13:15 <Aradorn> using this project to help me learn more about the language

13:16 <mellum> I meant the list for the stack.

13:16 <Aradorn> ah

13:16 <Aradorn> ok

13:17 <mellum> maybe the stack elements should also be of an enumerated type.

13:17 <Aradorn> man coming from java into ocaml is really weird, but it dosnt help that i've never done functional programming before