nickel/examples/arrays

Arrays

This example shows how to write generic, statically typed functions in Nickel. The code is illustrative: in practice, you should use the array stdlib functions array.map and array.fold instead of redefining your own.

Run

$ nickel -f arrays.ncl export

Playground

To see the effect of static typing, you can alter any of the map or fold function to see the program fails before it is even executed.

Another aspect is how Nickel guard typed function from untyped code by using contracts: at the end of the example, you can provide wrong arguments in the calls to my_array_lib.map or my_array_lib.fold to see contracts error appear:

-    let l = my_array_lib.map (fun x => x+1) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] in
+    let l = my_array_lib.map [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] (fun x => x+1) in