In More OCaml John Whitington takes a meandering tour of functional programming with OCaml, introducing various language features and describing some classic algorithms. The book ends with a large worked example dealing with the production of PDF files. There are questions for each chapter together with worked answers and hints.

More OCaml will appeal both to existing OCaml programmers who wish to brush up their skills, and to experienced programmers eager to explore functional languages such as OCaml. It is hoped that each reader will find something new, or see an old thing in a new light. For the more casual reader, or those who are used to a different functional language, a summary of basic OCaml is provided at the front of the book.

Chapters:

Summary of Basic OCaml
Our Working Environment
Unravelling "Fold"
Being Lazy
Named Tuples with Records
Generalized Input/Output
Streams of Bits
Compressing Data
Labelled and Optional Arguments
Formatted Printing
Searching for Things
Finding Permutations
Making Sets
Playing Games
Representing Documents
Writing Documents
Pretty Pictures
Adding Text
Answers to Questions
Hints for Questions
Coping with Errors

About the Author

John Whitington founded a company which sells software for document processing. He taught programming to students of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge. His books include the textbooks PDF Explained (O'Reilly, 2012), OCaml from the Very Beginning (Coherent, 2013), and Haskell from the Very Beginning (Coherent, 2019) and the Popular Science book A Machine Made this Book: Ten Sketches of Computer Science (Coherent, 2016).

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