Caml Weekly News

Hello,

Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, for the week of September 02 to  
09, 2008.

1) Batteries Included documentation, updated preview
2) OCamlSpotter: OCaml compiler extension for source browsing

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1) Batteries Included documentation, updated preview
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** David Teller announced:

We're happy to announce a new version of the API documentation,  
available at
<https://forge.ocamlcore.org/docman/index.php?group_id=17&... 
 >.
It's still a preview, but a much more readable one than what we had  
provided
so far.
			
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2) OCamlSpotter: OCaml compiler extension for source browsing
Archive: <http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thre... 
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** Jun Furuse announced:

I have written a small compiler patch called ocamlspotter. It extends
-annot option and records all the variable definition locations, so
that we can jump from variable uses to their definitions easily from
editors such as emacs.

It is still in a beta version quality, but it is already very useful
to browse very complex ocaml project trees.

The source is available as a diff against a cvs version of OCaml  
compiler at:

<http://www.furuse.info/jun/hacks/ocamlspotter/>

Comments and suggestions are welcome.
			
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