The Gobba Standard Library

This chapter is a work in progress.

Most standard library functions are organized in modules. The main modules are

• IO: All the impure Input/Output functionality is contained in this module.
• Char: Common operations on characters.
• List: Simple and higher-order functions to manipulate lists.
• Dict: Simple and higher-order operations on dictionaries.
• String: Common string operations.
• Math: Common mathematical functionality

Some other basic primitives are defined on the toplevel, those are:

• show val: Gives you a string representation of any value.
• typeof val: Gives you the string representation of the type of a value.
• failwith message: Fail the current computation with an error message

Primitives and printing

The impure primitives IO:print and IO:print_endline automatically call show on a value. The difference between them is that IO:print_endline automatically adds a newline at the end of the line.