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 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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.