[Caml-list] [ANN] Astring 0.8.0

[Caml-list] [ANN] Astring 0.8.0

[Daniel Bünzli]

Hello,  

I grew tired of the String module. Here's the first release of astring, described by:

  Astring exposes an alternative String module for OCaml. This module tries to 
  balance minimality and expressiveness for basic, index-free, string processing 
  and provides types and functions for substrings, string sets and string maps.

  Remaining compatible with the OCaml String module is a non-goal. The 
  String module exposed by Astring has exception safe functions, removes 
  deprecated and rarely used functions, alters some signatures and names, adds
  a few missing functions and fully exploits OCaml's newfound string immutability.

  Astring depends only on the OCaml standard library. It is distributed 
  under the BSD3 license.


Feedback on the API is welcome, it could still slightly change before stabilizing on a 1.0.0 release.

Homepage: http://erratique.ch/software/astring
API docs: http://erratique.ch/software/astring/doc/Astring

My thanks to David Kaloper for a heated and useful discussion about the API. Remaining misconceptions are mine.

Best, 

Daniel