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<adrien> about my problem from a couple days ago, I was probably stuck because what I needed in practice was to hide fields from an object (and I was using objects because jsoo and JS APIs)
<adrien> I finally switched to hidng the objects and provide functions instead of their methods
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<adrien> unfortunately I also had to put my two(!) low-level modules inside a module which only purpose is to have a restrictive signature
<adrien> (and which I "include" right after its definition)
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<Leonidas> https://chrispenner.ca/posts/wc I sort of feel like implementing wc with proper unicode word breaks in OCaml :-)
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<narimiran> Leonidas: have you seen this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21267750
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<Leonidas> narimiran: no; thanks :)
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<Leonidas> needs to use uuseg though :D
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<cemerick> I get the vague sense that angstrom is well-used in application contexts, but seems to be far less used in libraries.
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<spew> yeah I use it for a compiler
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<spew> technically it's a library that implements all the passes of the compiler though
<cemerick> it's really quite lovely, though I haven't done any benchmarking of it. I wonder if the bias is due to avoiding dependencies in libraries generally.
<companion_cube> it seems like it's nice for parsing binary stuff
<companion_cube> otherwise menhir is just perfect
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<spew> I like writing my parser in angstrom because it makes it easier to write the qcheck tests
<spew> more like, I write the qcheck generator and more or less copy it to the parser and I'm done
<spew> two birds with one monadic stone
<companion_cube> :D
<cemerick> I've felt that classic parser generators are a code smell for a long time now
<cemerick> just like any code generation, tbh
<companion_cube> meh
<companion_cube> menhir is really great, hard to emulate with combinators
<cemerick> ppx_menhir would be interesting
<companion_cube> 😱
<companion_cube> (for me, it's ppx that are a code smell :p)
<cemerick> you can take me out of a lisp, but can't take the lisp out of me
<companion_cube> code generation is just another form of lisp macros ;)
<cemerick> whoa there buddy lol
<Drup> yeah, I really don't see the difference between codegen and metaprog here
<Drup> but I mean, if a technology that allows you to actually do static analysis over your grammar is a code smell, sure, go forth
<Drup> I'll stick to the stuff that ensures absence of ambiguity and the right complexity :3
<companion_cube> to be fair, menhir isn't your average parser generator
<companion_cube> it's a lot better
<companion_cube> including error recovery
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<Drup> among many other things, yep :)
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<cemerick> good metaprogramming provides for a regularity of language at each level of abstraction and each stage of generation/expansion
<companion_cube> otoh it's a little bit of overhead to write a parser+lexer
<companion_cube> cemerick: so, with an untyped language at every level? 🙃
<companion_cube> tbh I'm more interested by what Zig is doing on that front
<simpson> companion_cube: I think that those are all the hard parts of compilers, really. What else is there?
<Drup> cemerick: only if you need such regularity. There are (many) cases where you want a different language, because the usecase is different
<Drup> (like, you know, describing grammars)
<companion_cube> simpson: type checking, code generation, optims? :p
<Drup> simpson: that's actually the simplest part of writing a compiler ...
<simpson> There's actually a reason why the untyped code-languages show up in every IR; it's because we gotta preserve the underlying *Turing category*. I'm still wrapping my head around this myself.
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<Drup> (and the least interesting one, in many regards)
<companion_cube> it used to be the hard part, but well
<cemerick> Drup: I should have said, the _option_ of regularity. ofc the whole point of metaprogramming is to provide language-oriented abstractions
<companion_cube> even writing a parser by hand isn't that hard if the grammar is not crazy
<Drup> companion_cube: it was the hardest part when all we were compiling were Fortran and Lisp :D
<simpson> Drup: If I had to summarize what I've learned about writing a compiler, I'd say that people don't often enough talk about how hard the *runtime* is to write!
<companion_cube> Drup: and C, and modula, and pascal, and algol?
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<Drup> that was later, and a bit harder
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<Drup> (C and modula, notably)
<companion_cube> (also, kind of doubt that the parser is the hardest part of a lisp compiler ;))
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<Drup> well, the rest is really trivial too :p
<companion_cube> errrrr
<companion_cube> trivial, as in no one else still does it to this day?
<companion_cube> (aka: where's my ocamlnat?)
<Drup> s/compiler/standard mean of code exec/ (so, a REPL for lisp)
<companion_cube> same thing
<companion_cube> how many languages have a full native compiler inside their repl, really?
<Drup> that's not the point ... at the time, the only thing provided was a REPL, and even if parsing Lisp is easy, the rest of the system (the Lisp REPL) was equally easy to write *AT THE TIME*
<cemerick> companion_cube: native lisp compilers with relevant controls at the REPL are the subject of ~intermediate CS classes *shrug*
<cemerick> so, lots, I guess?
<Drup> parsing used to be a big thing at the time, because it was a big part of the complexity of a compiler/interpreter at that time
<Drup> now, everything except parsing has become much more complicated, and most of the parsing has been figured out.
<companion_cube> cemerick: really? hmmmm
<companion_cube> Drup: I still disagree, native lisp compilers have existed for a while, and it's clearly non trivial since it's one of the only dynamic languages to have that
<cemerick> companion_cube: sure; see e.g. http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf, which a lot of classes have been based on
<companion_cube> and to have had that for a while, too
<cemerick> also all the various nanopass stuff coming out of IU, etc
<companion_cube> ah, yeah, but I meant more the incremental compilation in the repl
<Drup> yeah, but almost nobody does that because it has very little uses :)
<simpson> Honestly, I feel like the next frontier is finding ways to replicate the chimeric nature of systems like Racket, where languages themselves are modular.
<simpson> We have all of the tools required to *build* those systems, but not really to *generate* them. Like having Django but not Swagger/OpenAPI.
<cemerick> companion_cube: there's nothing complicated about that; once you have the native compiler and a REPL, it's just a matter of your runtime's calling conventions and how you set up environments
<companion_cube> Drup: yeah, who would want a native repl, really
<companion_cube> …
<cemerick> Drup with the masterful trolling lol
<Drup> companion_cube: people who already have decent debuggers :D
<cemerick> "seriously, I love restarting utop all the time"
<Drup> who don't*
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<Drup> C, C++ and Java programmers live without REPLs just fine :)
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<Drup> cemerick: ccube is so easy to troll, especially when he assumes everyone somehow does interactive theorem proving :D
<cemerick> survival isn't a good metric IMO; but also, Java devs _would_ actually die without incremental code loading during debug sessions
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<companion_cube> Drup: so, us?
<Drup> you*
<Drup> I don't.
<companion_cube> I mean, if it's so trivial, I want ocamlnat, thank you
<companion_cube> you don't use the repl?
<Drup> not very often
<companion_cube> it's so useful when you first learn the language :/
<cemerick> this is exactly analogous to people who use/like laissez-faire dynlangs saying how they don't want/don't see the use of types
<Drup> cemerick: it's actually kinda my point
<Drup> the ocaml toplevel is not good enough for me to use it all the time
<cemerick> that's exceedingly fair
<companion_cube> so basically, "I don't need it because it sucks"
<companion_cube> like with debugguers indeed
<Drup> but what I would be looking for is *not* native compilation, not by far
<companion_cube> what would be missing then? breakpoints?
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<cemerick> just in-place loading of new fun definitions and additive type changes would be _huge_
<cemerick> actually exactly what JVMs can reload/update safely
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<Drup> in-place (re)loading, definitely
<Drup> but also breakpoint+local code edition, like you can do in ruby for instance. That's super difficult to do in non-interpreted languages like ocaml, though
<companion_cube> reloading, like with use?
<Drup> not necessarely
<companion_cube> breakpoints are hard indeed
<Drup> you do `dune utop`, you type some code in, you change the project, you recompile (or it recompiles itself through dune watch) and automatically reload the toplevel, so you can keep trying things
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<ggole> You can absolutely have compilation and redefinition, but you kinda need the language to play nice
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<ggole> And I could not agree more about the toplevel (although I use it fairly often)
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<companion_cube> if `use` could pull things recursively, it'd help a lot imho
<companion_cube> but yeah, at work we have our own system anyway (and it's somewhat more dynamic than vanilla OCaml)
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<mbuf> Why isn't there command line history in the ocaml interpreter prompt? I always have to re-type commands from scratch.
<companion_cube> because you should use utop :D
<mbuf> Usually, using up and down arrow keys, one can scroll through the previous commands
<def`> or down
<companion_cube> (or something similar)
<def`> or rlwrap, etc.
<companion_cube> we have a linenoise based thing at work
<mbuf> utop can run in Emacs, nice! will check it out; thanks!
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<ggole> If you're in emacs, the standard toplevel should have history too
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<_y> how safe is it to assume that Stdlib.compare returns precisely { -1 ; 0 ; +1 } ?
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<_y> the spec only says that it returns a value less, equal or greater than 0, but when looking at the source code there is effort put specially so that the function only returns canonical values: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/trunk/runtime/compare.c#L298
<companion_cube> not very safe
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<ggole> compare can call custom C code, which can do anything that's within the rules
<ggole> Such as returning other values.
<ggole> So you can get into trouble even without considering possible changes in the implementation
<_y> ggole, but with the C code i linked, if `caml_compare` is the entry point for Stdlib.compare, then whatever C callbacks do, the result will be normalized at the end
<_y> or i am mistaken?
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<ggole> Oh, hmm.
<ggole> You seem to be right. I still wouldn't rely on it, though.
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<sim642> Is there anything to inline open-s? I'd like to locally keep my code properly organized into files but be able to quickly get a single file for submitting to hackerrank for example
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<sophiag> i'm having trouble linking a static library to an executable in dune. i usually use c_library_flags when using libraries and the docs state this can also be used in executable stanzas, but it appears not. any help? fyi, i'm on dune 1.0 so some of the field names have changed
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