08:19 <toastal> Newb q: I’m trying to figure out the best way to print a file with indentation & the like. My search is leading me to Format (& Fmt), but I’m afraid I’m going down the wrong path as if this is for echoing stdout info and not for, like, writing a file. Is this correct? Also, do I need to do this via printf functions to stdout? Shouldn’t I be collecting the string manipulation functions and then executing it in ‘main’ rather than just b

08:19 <toastal> arfing to stdout as a side-effect? I think I’m missing something…

08:22 <toastal> Am I supposed to be building up a `formatter`?

09:04 <octachron> Format is a good enough tool for printing to stdout with indentation.

09:04 <octachron> Generally, you want to define a printer (a function of type: Format.formatter -> t -> unit) for your type.

09:11 <toastal> 

09:11 <toastal> That puts me on the right path

09:40 <discocaml> <._null._> Format can print anywhere, be it stdout (`printf`) stederr (`eprintf`), a string `(sprintf`) or, in your case, in a file `formatter_of_out_channel`

17:25 <WindGalaxy> friends, i'm thinking to try out ocaml on some free hours this weekend. Looks like book "real world ocaml" is a good place to start, but it lists using version 4.13.1. With 5.1 recently released, was there anything in there that would make the book out of date that I need to worry about?

17:47 <discocaml> <octachron> Since "real world ocaml" is using base, there should be no visible difference.

17:54 <WindGalaxy> discocaml: thanks, glad to hear it

21:13 <discocaml> <rbjorklin> Maybe this should go into the #dune channel but here goes:

21:13 <discocaml> <rbjorklin> What’s the most sensible way of including resources such as a default config or a `site.css` bundle in your project? I realize I could just have a `Resource` module with some multi-line strings in it but that would lose syntax highlighting for something like css. Are there other options?

22:03 <companion_cube> I have a little tool to bake files into a OCaml module

22:03 <companion_cube> there are similar tools on opam (`crunch` maybe?)

22:17 <discocaml> <leviroth> You can also do this: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-lsp/blob/f2303a7e3e516a36ec09b182d06003ee845e8e38/lsp/bin/dune#L5-L11

22:18 <discocaml> <leviroth> See also this proposal to support it directly in dune: https://github.com/ocaml/dune/issues/4358