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Here is the latest OCaml Weekly News, for the week of June 21 to 28, 2016.
Archive: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2016-06/msg00091.html
Leonardo Laguna Ruiz announced:
Pla is a simple library and ppx syntax extension to create composable templates
based on verbatim strings.
You can find the code and a quick description of it’s features
https://modlfo.github.io/pla/
In a nutshell, the ppx transforms quoted strings in the form {pla| …. |pla} to
templates. Inside templates it’s possible to add markers whose contents is
replaced by other templates, for example:
let name = Pla.string “pla” ;;
let t = {pla|The library name is <#name#>|pla} ;;
will produce “The library name is Pla”
When compiled, the markers are type-safe.
Pla does not provide advanced pretty-printing features but it produces fast
functions to create large amounts of text.
Archive: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2016-06/msg00108.html
whitequark announced:
I'm glad to announce new releases of ppx_deriving, ppx_deriving_protobuf
and ppx_deriving_yojson. They are already available via OPAM.
Changes:
ppx_deriving 4.0
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* Show, eq, ord, map, iter, fold: add support for `Result.result`.
* Ppx_deriving.Arg: use Result.result instead of polymorphic variants.
* Ppx_deriving.sanitize: parameterize over an opened module.
* Add support for `[@@deriving]` in module type declarations.
* Add support for loading findlib packages instead of just files in
ppx_deriving_main.
* Treat types explicitly qualified with Pervasives also as builtin.
* Compatibility with statically linked ppx drivers.
ppx_deriving_protobuf 2.5
-------------------------
* Compatibility with statically linked ppx drivers.
ppx_deriving_yojson 3.0
-----------------------
* Use Result.result in generated code.
* OCaml 4.03 compatibility.
* Compatibility with statically linked ppx drivers.
Here are links from many OCaml blogs aggregated at OCaml Planet,
http://ocaml.org/community/planet/.
Full Time: Software Developer (Functional Programming) at Jane Street in New York, NY; London, UK; Hong Kong
http://jobs.github.com/positions/0a9333c4-71da-11e0-9ac7-692793c00b45
Fourteenth OCaml compiler hacking evening at Citrix
http://ocamllabs.github.com/compiler-hacking/2016/06/26/summer-at-citrix
Camlzip 1.06 released
http://forge.ocamlcore.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=935
Let syntax, and why you should use it
https://blogs.janestreet.com/let-syntax-and-why-you-should-use-it/
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