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• Pentole
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Pentole

Pentole aims to be a companion to the F# standard library. It consists of various extensions to the core library types and additional libraries for common operations.

This is a list of the provided modules:

• Option: extend the Option type with auxiliary functions
• Path: datatype to represent Posix paths
• Result: extend the Result type with auxiliary functions
• String: extensive string manipulation library
• TestExtensions: provide methods that complements Nunit.Framework.Assert

Goals

The goals of Pentole are the following:

• target developers that work with distributed systems
• avoid OOP
• use exceptions exclusively when they are the most intuitive approach for the code at hand
• prefer the ocaml coding style rather than C# Pascal Case oriented style
• avoid dependencies to other companion libraries FSharpPlus and FSharpx, thus reimplementing some of their functions verbatim
• be well documented and tested
• target GNU/Linux exclusively