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OCaml < 4.14, Fedora 42 and GCC 15

Late last week, @MisterDA added Fedora 42 support to the Docker base image builder. The new base images attempted to build over the weekend, but there have been a few issues!

22 Apr 2025

Marc Elvers

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Introducing the `odoc` Cheatsheet: Your Handy Guide to OCaml Documentation

For developers diving into the OCaml ecosystem, one of the essential tools you'll encounter is odoc. Whether you're a seasoned OCaml…

17 Sep 2024

Tarides

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Let syntax, and why you should use it

Earlier this year, we createda ppx_let, a PPX rewriter thatintroduces a syntax for working with monadic and applicative libraries likeCommand, Async, Result ...

21 Jun 2016

Jane Street Tech Blog

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Converting a code base from camlp4 to ppx

As with many projects in the OCaml world, at Jane Street we have been working onmigrating from camlp4 to ppx. After having developed equivalent ppx rewriters...

08 Jul 2015

Jane Street Tech Blog

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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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Discussions on the Syntactic Meta Programming(wg-camlp4 list)

There are some interesting discussions in the wg-camlp4 mailing list, I wrote a long mail yesterday, I cleaned it a bit, pasted it here ——— I rewrite the whole camlP4(named Fan) f…

31 Jan 2013

Hong bo Zhang

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