[Caml-list] 2015 ML & OCaml post-proceedings now available

[Jeremy Yallop <yallop@gmail.com>]

Readers of caml-list may be interested to know that the joint
post-proceedings of the 2015 ML and OCaml workshops have now been
published:

   http://eptcs.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/content.cgi?ML2015

Of the four papers in the volume, three are directly relevant to OCaml users:

   * Generating Code with Polymorphic let: A Ballad of Value
Restriction, Copying and Sharing (Oleg Kiselyov) describes a
translation from a MetaOCaml-style multi-staged language into a
language without staging, with support for generating polymorphic-let
expressions.

   * GADTs and Exhaustiveness: Looking for the Impossible (Jacques
Garrigue and Jacques Le Normand) explores the difficulties with
checking pattern-matching exhaustiveness for GADTs in the presence of
abstract types.  The paper includes details of the "refutation
patterns" introduced in OCaml 4.03.

   * Specialization of Generic Array Accesses After Inlining (Ryohei
Tokuda, Eijiro Sumii and Akinori Abe) describes an optimization in the
OCaml compiler that extends the intermediate language with array type
information to avoid runtime type dispatch.

and the fourth falls within the broader area of ML-family languages:

   * Dependent Types for Multi-Rate Data Flows in Synchronous
Programming (William Blair and Hongwei Xi) describes an implementation
of the synchronous programming language Prelude using the type system
of the ML-family language ATS.

With kind regards,

Damien Doligez
Jeremy Yallop (editors)