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Latest revision as of 14:42, 3 February 2011
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[edit] Feature Name OCaml 3.12
[edit] Summary
OCaml 3.12 is a major new release of the OCaml language and compiler.
The 8 new major language features are described in this paper (PDF - skip to section 3), and as well as these new features there are new supporting camlp4 and libraries.
[edit] Owner
- Name: Richard W.M. Jones
- Email: rjones@redhat.com
[edit] NOTE
I (rjones) am on holiday all of February, and won't be available on email or IRC.
[edit] Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 15
- Last updated: 2011-02-03
- Percentage of completion: 100%
[edit] Detailed Description
OCaml 3.12 is a major revision of the OCaml programming language, the camlp4 macro language, libraries, and CDuce for XML processing.
New language features include:
- modules are now first-class values
- nested module open
- open record notation
- mark OO methods which must be overridden in subclasses
- limited support for delimited overloading in the language
camlp4 and camlp5 macro languages have been revised and extended.
The changes are completely backwards compatible.
[edit] Benefit to Fedora
For Fedora this brings the OCaml support right up to date and alongside Debian. It also enables our developers to use a powerful and fast programming language.
[edit] Scope
What needs to be done is to update all of the packages listed on this page:
http://cocan.org/fedora#Package_status
Some of them will simply be a recompile, some of them have new upstream versions which are compatible with 3.12.
[edit] How To Test
No special hardware is needed.
Users can test the new features by compiling their own programs or playing in the REPL:
$ rlwrap ocaml
[edit] User Experience
End users won't notice the difference. Developers will have a more powerful and up to date OCaml to use.
[edit] Dependencies
None.
[edit] Contingency Plan
Stay with OCaml 3.11.
[edit] Documentation
- https://forge.ocamlcore.org/docman/view.php/77/112/leroy-cug2010.pdf
- http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4050
[edit] Release Notes
- Fedora 15 includes OCaml 3.12, a major new release of the OCaml language and compiler.
