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OCaml Weekly News, 13 Oct 2026

betacalendars 1.0.0 — deterministic date and calendar utilitiesSedlex 3.8.1opam 2.6.1shakuhachi v0.4.0Docfd: TUI multiline fuzzy document finder - 13.1.3 + proper user guideOUPS meetup october 2026faker 0.1.1: fake (but realistic) data, seed-compatible with faker-js

13 Oct 2026

Caml Weekly News

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Implementing type-classes as OCaml modules

Implementing type-classes as OCaml modules Modular type classes We revisit the idea of type-classe...

29 Oct 2016

Shayne Fletcher

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Haskell type-classes in OCaml and C++

Haskell type-classes in OCaml and C++ This article examines the emulation of Haskell like type-classes...

26 Oct 2016

Shayne Fletcher

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Monty Hall

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors : Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a d...

12 Oct 2016

Shayne Fletcher

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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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Quick, dirty and shallow definitions

Here is a quick hack. A few months ago, I advocated for pointer equality in OCaml (==) as a way to deal with fresh symbols in a toy compiler. Today, I’ll show another application of pointer e…

21 Nov 2013

Matthias Puech

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[ANN] Protobuf 0.0.2

Protobuf is an Ocaml library for communicating with Google's protobuf format. It provides a method for writing parsers and builders. Ther...

17 Mar 2013

Orbitz

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