[Caml-list] OCaml release 4.08.0

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From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr> To: caml announce <caml-announce@inria.fr>, caml users <caml-list@inria.fr> Subject: [Caml-list] OCaml release 4.08.0 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:19:35 +0200 Message-ID: <E2C57A5B-D770-426C-8DAF-514B6A369D2A@inria.fr> (raw) Dear OCaml users, We have the pleasure of celebrating the birthday of Alonzo Church by announcing the release of OCaml version 4.08.0. Some of the highlights in this release are: - Binding operators (let*, let+, and*, etc). They can be used to streamline monadic code. - `open` now applies to arbitrary module expression in structures and to applicative paths in signatures. - A new notion of (user-defined) "alerts" generalizes the deprecated warning. - New modules in the standard library: Fun, Bool, Int, Option, Result. - A significant number of new functions in Float, including FMA support, and a new Float.Array submodule. - Source highlighting for errors and warnings in batch mode. - Many error messages were impr…