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Disjunctive normal forms in big steps

This is probably a second-semester functional programming exercise, but I found it surprisingly hard, and could not find a solution online. So at the risk of depriving a TA from a problem for its m…

15 Apr 2014

Matthias Puech

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Representing pattern-matching with GADTs

Here is a little programming pearl. I’ve been wanting to work on pattern-matching for a while now, and it seems like I will finally have this opportunity here at my new (academic) home, McGil…

11 Apr 2014

Matthias Puech

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React 1.0.0

02 Apr 2014

Daniel Bünzli

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The Generic Syntax Extension

OCaml 4.01 with its new feature to disambiguate constructors allows to do a nice trick: a simple and generic syntax extension that allows to define your own syntax without having to write complicated parsetree transformers. We propose an implementation in the form of a ppx rewriter. it does only a s...

01 Apr 2014

OCamlPro

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Codio: build Mirage unikernels from a browser

Build Mirage unikernels from a browser with Codio's OPAM support and interactive Ubuntu shell.

26 Mar 2014

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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Easily OPAM switching to any OCaml feature request

Switch between OCaml compilers easily with OPAM and GitHub pull requests.

25 Mar 2014

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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OCamlPro Highlights: Feb 2014

Here is a short report of some of our activities in February 2014 ! Displaying what OPAM is doing After releasing version 1.1.1, we have been very busy preparing the next big things for OPAM. We have also steadily been improving stability and usability, with a focus on friendly messages: for example...

05 Mar 2014

OCamlPro

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