From:	 David Mentre <David.Mentre@inria.fr>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Attn: Development Editor, Latest CWN
Date:	 05 Jun 2001 16:28:41 +0200

Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, week 29th of to 5th of June, 2001.

  Table of Contents
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 1) Release 3.01.5 of Camlp4 with a new Tutorial

 2) A report on possible OCaml compiler optimizations for numerical
    computing

 3) A new project to interface Win32 API with OCaml

 1) Release 3.01.5 of Camlp4 with a new Tutorial

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Release 3.01.5 of Camlp4, compatible with Ocaml 3.01.

  - Big effort done for documentation!
      * A tutorial has been added (about 50 pages).
      * The reference manual has been updated.
  - Added ability to use #load in source files to load syntax extensions
  - Added functional streams.
  - Fixed bugs.

Information and downloading address at:
   http://caml.inria.fr/camlp4/
   http://caml.inria.fr/camlp4/index-fra.html (version francaise)

 2) A report on possible OCaml compiler optimizations for numerical
    computing

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This report describes adjustments of the ocaml compiler to support
better optimization of arrays for numerical computing.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Courses/cs612/2001SP/projects/ocaml-arrays/OCaml.pdf

 3) A new project to interface Win32 API with OCaml

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Harry Chomsky writes:

"I've embarked on a project to enable writing full-fledged Win32 applications
using OCaml.  I'm doing this mostly for fun as I take a break between jobs.
Of course I hope some people may find it useful in the end.  There's a long
way to go still, but I wanted to let the community know that I'm doing this
and see if you have any advice.  Most of all, if this has already been done,
please tell me so I can stop wasting my time!  As far as I can tell from the
mailing list archives, it has not been done yet, and a few people have
requested it.

If anyone wants to see where I am with it, and offer help or feedback, I've
posted the code at:

http://www.speakeasy.org/~hchomsky/ocaml-win32.html
"

 David.Mentre@inria.fr -- http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/
 Opinions expressed here are only mine.