The document provides advice for feeling overwhelmed as a newcomer to an OCaml project, recommending using the OCamlSpotter tool to more easily search and navigate code by leveraging metadata from the compiler rather than manual searching or grep. It describes how OCamlSpotter works and can be integrated with editors, and argues that it is a proven solution for locating symbols in OCaml code.

1. Spot Your White Caml

2. Make Yourself Happy in OCaml Projects

3. BTW J. Furuse aka CamlSpotter 15 years of OCaml programming 3 years of Functional Quants

4. Scenario You have jumped into an OCaml Project.

5. Congrats : Your Choice was Correct! OCaml is a good to get your work done: Type-safe

6. Enough Stable

7. Reasonably fast

8. Very simple Readable

9. Scalable

10. Strong abstraction

11. Multi-paradigm

12. Typical Day 1 : Welcome! Nice and Kind Colleagues

13. New Cool Office

14. Good Machine

15. Even A Welcome Party!

16. Typical Day 2 : Real Job Starts

17. Typical Day 2 : Real Job Starts Overwhelmed type 'a desc = { position : Postion.t; value : 'a } let rec typecheck env = function Exp_int n -> open Utils open Sourceloc open Spot module Kind = struct include Kind let to_string = function Value -> &quot;Value&quot; let escaped pred s = let b = Buffer.create (String.length s) in String.iter (fun c -> if pred c then Buffer.add_char b '\\'; module Make (M : Basic) : S with type 'a monad = 'a M.t = struct let bind = M.bind type error = E2BIG | EACCES | EAGAIN | EBADF let cflag_of_int = function | 0x0001 -> `CASELESS | 0x0002 -> `MULTILINE | 0x0004 -> `DOTALL | 0x0008 -> `EXTENDED class ['a] gobject_signals obj = object val obj : 'a obj = obj val after = false method after = {< after = true >} method private connect : 'b. ('a,'b) GtkSignal.t -> callback:'b -> _ =

18. Typical Day 100

19. Typical Day 100 Still being Overwhelmed... type 'a desc = { position : Postion.t; value : 'a } let rec typecheck env = function Exp_int n -> open Utils open Sourceloc open Spot module Kind = struct include Kind let to_string = function Value -> &quot;Value&quot; let escaped pred s = let b = Buffer.create (String.length s) in String.iter (fun c -> if pred c then Buffer.add_char b '\\'; module Make (M : Basic) : S with type 'a monad = 'a M.t = struct let bind = M.bind type error = E2BIG | EACCES | EAGAIN | EBADF let cflag_of_int = function | 0x0001 -> `CASELESS | 0x0002 -> `MULTILINE | 0x0004 -> `DOTALL | 0x0008 -> `EXTENDED class ['a] gobject_signals obj = object val obj : 'a obj = obj val after = false method after = {< after = true >} method private connect : 'b. ('a,'b) GtkSignal.t -> callback:'b -> _ =

20. Why You feel yourself Dumb ?

21. Seniors look Smarter than you ? You Senior

22. Answer : Curves Learning vs Code Growth Time LoC Seniors

23. Answer : Curves Learning vs Code Growth Time LoC Eternal Rookies Seniors

24. Improve Your Learning Curve How to Read the Code

25. Write Good Code

26. Ask Questions

27. Minimize Reading Effort

28. Read .mli First Read interfaces (=.mli) first

29. Skip implementations (=.ml) if possible

30. Write Good .mli Good for Yourself and the Others Hide implementation details

31. Show the things the users should care

32. With GOOD and SHORT comments

33. Let TYPES tell details of functions

34. ocamlc -i gives a good start point

35. Do NOT Guess .mli No GOOD .mli found ? Do NOT waste time to guess interfaces

36. Ask the Authors write them Write them, or I get Home. Not something automatically created.

37. Do NOT Ask Silly Questions In OJT, your job is asking QUESTIONS, wisely. Where is it? In foo/bar.ml Where is this? In bar/boo.mli What is that? Uh, oh...

38. Ask Good Questions Read code to get HOW

39. Then Ask WHY, which the Code does NOT tell you Why this data type is designed like this? Some combinations never appear in the algorithm. It could be simpler. Oh, this new guy is Strong...

40. Still NOT ENOUGH How to Read, Ask, and Write are important.

41. But NOT the most Critical!

42. Where is Your White ?

43. 80% of Your Energy is for Searching Where is the definition of this and that ? What the type of this ?

44. Syntax Hilighting It improves Local Vicinity of your Code. caml-mode.el (with OCaml)

45. tuareg-mode.el (1.45.6-2 / 1.46.2 / (2.0.1))

46. {syntax,ftplugin,indent}/ocaml.vim (2010 Aug 07)

47. Manual Search It NEVER Scales. You are warned. Names are defined above in the file

48. in Pervasives

49. in file system (include path)

50. in opened modules