Sometimes you write code you’re just not super happy with.

The Diamond Kata is a simple kata to take a single character parameter, and return a “diamond” shaped string.  Examples:

diamond 'A';; 
val it : string = "A"

diamond 'B';;
val it : string = "
 A 
B B
 A "

diamond 'C';;
val it : string = "
  A  
 B B 
C   C
 B B 
  A  "

etc;;

That’s how I describe this Kata I was working on. I’m just not super happy with it. It feels wordy, and a bit inelegant. Still, it does work (as long as you pass a character ‘greater’ than upper case A. I should probably enforce that sometime… but for now, here it is.