[cwn] Attn: Development Editor, Latest Caml Weekly News

[Alan Schmitt]

Hello,

Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, for the week of 10 to 17  
January, 2006.

1) Pickling for OCaml?
2) Marching Tetrahedra
3) A bunch of ocaml programs

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1) Pickling for OCaml?
Archive: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.caml.general/31881>
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** Continuing the thread from last week, Jonathan Roewen announced:

Well, in the meantime, we've ported most of the pickling library from
SML.NET to work with O'Caml. Supports most of the basic types
(int,bool,char,string,list,array,unit,pairs->sextuples) and a few
combinators (alttag, wrap, lift,seq).

Fairly easy to define a pickler:

module BytePickle = Pickle.CorePickle(Pickle.ByteCodec)
open BytePickle

let pickler = pair (string list,int)

let data = pickle pickler (["hello";"world"],-1)

let value = unpickle pickler (List.rev data)

Files at <http://devnulled.ath.cx/svn/dst/trunk/kernel/pickle.ml> &
<http://devnulled.ath.cx/svn/dst/trunk/kernel/pickle.mli>

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2) Marching Tetrahedra
Archive: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.caml.general/31943>
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** Chris Campbell announced:

I took some of my code for implicit surface drawing from a while back,
tidied it up and decided to release it.  It's based on J. Blooms
polygonizer.

I'm working on organising my site, so it's only described in following
blog post.  Hopefully it'll have it's own page soon.

<http://www.morbid-incantations.co.uk/node/2>

Direct download <http://www.morbid-incantations.co.uk/files/ 
sucellos.tar.gz>

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3) A bunch of ocaml programs
Archive: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.caml.general/31946>
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** Philippe Narbel announced:

just to announce that i made available large samples
of the programs that appear in my text about ocaml:

<http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~narbel/PFGO/index_sources.html>

feel free to experiment and to make comments.

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