[Caml-list] [ANN] Mascot 1.0 release

[Caml-list] [ANN] Mascot 1.0 release

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Dear list,

This post announces the 1.0 release of the Mascot project, whose goal is to
provide a style-checker for OCaml sources.

Home page: http://mascot.x9c.fr

Main changes since 1.0-beta:
   - support for checks based on binary annotations
   - support for binary output mode, and report-only mode
   - new code check: 'catch_all' to detect patterns catching all exceptions
   - new code check: 'code.ignore_unit' check to detect application of  
'ignore' to expression whose type is 'unit'
   - bug #72: allow punctuation after closing a block
   - bug #74: handle the '::' operator
   - bug #75: do not require whitespace after '?' used for optional label
   - bug #76: do not require whitespace around '..' used for character range
   - bug #77: allow absence of whitespace before unary minus if  
previous token is an opening one
   - bug #79: treat '[< ... >]' and '[| ... |]' blocks like '{ ... }' blocks
   - bug #80: allow whitespace after '.' when used to introduce  
polymorphic type
   - bug #81: allow opening token after a label
   - bug #84: use 'center' rather than 'p' tag with 'align' attribute,  
and correct handling of icons
   - bug #87: install shouldn't build anything
   - bug #89: do not activate warnings by default
   - bug #90: output available checks as a ready-to-use config
   - bug #93: 'interface.duplicate' to detect duplicate entries in signatures
   - bug #94: do not require whitespace after colon
   - bug #96: 'typography.trailing_white_space' now has a 'tolerance'  
parameter in order to indicate how many whitespace characters may be  
tolerated
   - update for OCaml 4.00.0


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