From: Francois Pottier <Francois.Pottier@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: First release of AlphaCaml
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:09:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050613080926.GA23051@yquem.inria.fr> (raw)
Dear all,
It is my pleasure to announce the initial release of alphaCaml.
AlphaCaml is a tool that turns a so-called ``binding specification'' into an
Objective Caml compilation unit. A binding specification resembles an
algebraic data type declaration, but also includes information about names and
binding. AlphaCaml is meant to help writers of interpreters, compilers, or
other programs-that-manipulate-programs deal with alpha-conversion in a safe
and concise style.
In short, alphaCaml can be understood as an alternative to Fresh Objective
Caml. It takes the form of a code generator and a library, instead of a set of
patches to the compiler and runtime system. Furthermore, its binding
specification language is more expressive.
An introduction to alphaCaml is available at
http://cristal.inria.fr/~fpottier/publis/fpottier-alphacaml.pdf
The source code is available at
http://cristal.inria.fr/~fpottier/alphaCaml/alphaCaml-20050609.tar.gz
Installation requires Objective Caml and findlib. A GODI package is also
available now.
This is an initial release. There is a lot of progress to be made. Comments,
suggestions, and criticism are welcome. Authors of systems (written in
Objective Caml) where alpha-conversion is an issue are warmly encouraged to
try it out and to make their impressions public!
Best regards,
--
François Pottier
Francois.Pottier@inria.fr
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/
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