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Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, week 3 to 10 september, 2002.

1) Baire pre-release (formerly Edison)
2) Enhanced Ocaml Documentation Version 3.06
3) Computational Linguistics toolkit

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1) Baire pre-release (formerly Edison)
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Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons announced:

I would like to announce the pre-release of Baire (pronounce bear)
library (a data structure library), available at the following address

   http://www.ifrance.com/DiegoOlivierFernandezPons

- web pages for the moment are in French
- all the code is in English (but comments are in French)
- there is still a lot of broken code

For the moment, all data structures are polymorphic (functors and
objects will be available once seriously debugged). But you can obtain a
functor inserting a header and replacing all "compare" occurences with
"Ord.compare"

You can report any bug to

   FernandezPons@iFrance.com

Feedback is welcome (non exhaustive list) :
  - things you don't like (function names, arguments ordering, etc)
  - functions, algorithms or data structures you would like to be
included

(same adress) FernandezPons@iFrance.com

Since signatures can change until the first stable release, I do not
recommend you tou switch to Baire for the moment if you intended to.

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2) Enhanced Ocaml Documentation Version 3.06
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Hendrik Tews announced:

Dear all,

after reviving from the millennium flooding I proudly present

                 The Enhanced Ocaml Documentation  
                          Version 3.06
   available via http://wwwtcs.inf.tu-dresden.de/~tews/htmlman-3.06

The enhanced documentation contains the original html version of
the ocaml reference manual with the following changes:

- Changes (wrt version 3.02 and to version 3.01)
  are tagged with icons and color
  (Sorry I skipped versions 3.03alpha - 3.05)

- meta symbols of the grammar are "hot" and refer to their
  definition.

- additional appendix containing just the grammar rules


For your pleasure I compiled the

      Ocaml Grammar Meta Symbol Chart

Count : meta symbol                file
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76    : expr                       manual015.html
51    : typexpr                    manual012.html
27    : pattern                    manual014.html
16    : module-type                manual018.html
14    : ident                      manual009.html
11    : module-path                manual011.html
11    : label-name                 manual011.html
10    : module-name                manual011.html
 9    : value-name                 manual011.html

                   ......

 0    : unit-interface             manual020.html
 0    : unit-implementation        manual020.html
 0    : toplevel-input             manual023.html
 0    : optlabel                   manual009.html
 0    : linenum-directive          manual009.html


As you see, <expr> is the far most popular metasymbol!

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3) Computational Linguistics toolkit
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Gérard Huet announced:

I am pleased to announce the first release of the Zen Computational
Linguistics toolkit, a small Ocaml library. It is available from:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~huet/ZEN (accessible from the Caml Hump,
section Linguistics). For the moment, it comprises a few data
structures and algorithms of use for the representation of lexicons, and
for morphology and segmentation computations.

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