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

[Alan Schmitt]

Hello,

Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, for the week of October 16 to  
23, 2007.

1) pa_oo and pa_polymap for 3.10
2) Sexplib now available for OCaml 3.10

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1) pa_oo and pa_polymap for 3.10
Archive: <http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_frm/thread/ 
b295006a4b3cb0c3/b8f65366ff33d2f5#b8f65366ff33d2f5>
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** Jacques Garrigue announced:

I've just added versions of pa_oo and pa_polymap working with 3.10.
Sorry for the long delay...

<http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/code/ocaml.html>
			
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2) Sexplib now available for OCaml 3.10
Archive: <http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_frm/thread/ 
6d87dd2e32378d45/7357515c6ebe3223#7357515c6ebe3223>
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** Markus Mottl announced:

I am happy to announce that the Sexplib library has been ported to  
OCaml 3.10:

<http://ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html#sexplib310>

It now depends on the type-conv library, which factors out common
functionality for future type conversion libraries (e.g. an upcoming
type-safe and extremely efficient binary protocol library):

<http://ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html#type-conv>

Sexplib is also available through Godi, which will automatically
resolve the dependency on type-conv.

The new release also comes with several bug fixes, performance
improvements and small feature extensions.

Here is a short description of Sexplib (from the README):

This library contains functionality for parsing and pretty-printing
S-expressions. In addition to that it contains an extremely useful
preprocessing module for Camlp4, which can be used to automatically
generate code from type definitions for efficiently converting OCaml- 
values
to  S-expressions and vice versa. In combination with the parsing and
pretty-printing functionality this frees users from having to write  
their own
I/O-routines for datastructures they define. Possible errors during  
automatic
conversions from S-expressions to OCaml-values are reported in a very
human-readable way. Another module in the library allows you to  
extract and
replace sub-expressions in S-expressions.
			
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