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-> module List = List
-> module Random = Random
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## What are the Juli8 Libraries? ##
-In addition to the fine programming language Kapulet, which doesn't yet exist in a form you can actually execute --- though the full-featured interpreter we provided last week (LINK) is a good start --- I decided it would be useful to have a collection of basic libraries for our teaching (and other) purposes, that brought OCaml, Haskell, and the Scheme implementations we recommend, more onto even footing. Of course there are fundamental differences between these languages, such as the lack of types in Scheme (though both Racket and Chicken have some facility for working with types in extensions), or the default lazy evaluation strategy in Haskell. But there are also many simply accidental differences between the languages too, in that this one provides a library function doing so-and-so, but the other one doesn't, or calls it by a different name. The Juli8 collection of libraries is aimed to reduce these differences, to make it easier to move back and forth between the languages, and also to just make some of the languages generally easier to use (from my perspective). Juli8 will eventually have components that you can install into each of Haskell, OCaml, Racket, and Chicken. For the moment, OCaml is the most developed of these, and Haskell a bit, with the Scheme components deferred for another time.
+In addition to the fine programming language Kapulet, which doesn't yet exist in a form you can actually execute --- though the full-featured interpreter we provided [[a week or so ago|/topics/week7_untyped_evaluator]] is a good start --- I decided it would be useful to have a collection of basic libraries for our teaching (and other) purposes, that brought OCaml, Haskell, and the Scheme implementations we recommend, more onto even footing. Of course there are fundamental differences between these languages, such as the lack of types in Scheme (though both Racket and Chicken have some facility for working with types in extensions), or the default lazy evaluation strategy in Haskell. But there are also many simply accidental differences between the languages too, in that this one provides a library function doing so-and-so, but the other one doesn't, or calls it by a different name. The Juli8 collection of libraries is aimed to reduce these differences, to make it easier to move back and forth between the languages, and also to just make some of the languages generally easier to use (from my perspective). Juli8 will eventually have components that you can install into each of Haskell, OCaml, Racket, and Chicken. For the moment, OCaml is the most developed of these, and Haskell a bit, with the Scheme components deferred for another time.
Juli8 tries to give OCaml more-or-less the same functionality that you have in Haskell's Maybe, List, and Monad libraries, as well as a few others. It doesn't try for an exact match, and it doesn't strictly use the same names as Haskell does. I've aimed to at least stay close to the existing OCaml naming patterns, and also the Scheme naming patterns when they are salient to me.
-Below, we'll give instructions on how to install Juli8 into your existing OCaml and/or Haskell setups. We'll also discuss how to use the non-monadic parts of the Juli8 libraries for OCaml. We discuss how to use the monadic parts of the Juli8 libraries for OCaml elsewhere (LINK). We'll also say a little bit about the little bit that Juli8 provides for you if you're using Haskell.
+Below, we'll give instructions on how to install Juli8 into your existing OCaml and/or Haskell setups. We'll also discuss how to use the non-monadic parts of the Juli8 libraries for OCaml. We discuss how to use the monadic parts of the Juli8 libraries for OCaml [[elsewhere|/topics/week9_using_the_monad_library]]. We'll also say a little bit about the little bit that Juli8 provides for you if you're using Haskell.
## Setting up OCaml in general, and for use with Juli8 ##
module type SOMETHING = Monad.OPTION
- as I directed you elsewhere (LINK), you can instead just type:
+ as [[I directed you elsewhere|/topics/week9_using_the_monad_library]], you can instead just type:
#show Monad.OPTION
## Using the Juli8 libraries with OCaml ##
-Will add here some guidance on using the non-monadic parts of the Juli8 library. For the monadic part, [[see here]] (LINK).
+Will add here some guidance on using the non-monadic parts of the Juli8 library. For the monadic part, [[see here|/topics/week9_using_the_monad_library]].