[ANN] OCamlformat 0.15.0

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On behalf of the development team, I’d like to announce the release of ocamlformat version 0.15.0 :tada:.

Here are the main highlights of this release:

Support for OCaml 4.11

This means both that it compiles and runs using this version, but also that it can format 4.11-specific language features (quoted extensions: {%foo|...|}).

Compatibility with base and stdio v0.14.0

This compatibility has been restored since ocamlformat-0.14.3 but wasn’t publicly announced, ocamlformat is now compatible from base v0.12.0 to v0.14.0 included.

Bugfixes

Many bugs and unoptimal formatting were also fixed in this release:

  • Do not break inline elements such as {i blah} in docstrings
  • Distinguish hash-getter from hash-comparison infix operators. Operators of the form #**# or #**. where ** can be 0 or more operator chars are considered getter operators and are not surrounded by spaces, as opposed to regular infix operators
  • Type constraint on return type of functions is now always printed before the function body
  • Restore previous functionality for pre-post extension points
  • Fix extra break before function body of a fun
    Indent further args of anonymous functions
  • Do not clear the emacs *compilation* buffer on successful reformat
  • Fix disabling with attributes on OCaml < 4.08
  • Preserve unwrapped comments by not adding artificial breaks when wrap-comments=false and ocp-indent-compat=true are set to avoid interfering with ocp-indent indentation
  • Break long literal strings at the margin
  • Break after a multiline argument in an argument list
  • Remove unnecessary parens around object
  • Fix placement of comments on constants
  • Do not escape arguments of some Odoc tags. The characters []{} must not be escaped in the arguments of @raise, @author, @version and others.
  • Fix missing open line between multi-line let-binding with poly-typexpr
  • Remove trailing space after expression when followed by an attribute and break before attributes attached to multi-line phrases
  • Do not add a space to minimal comments (* *), (** *) and (*$ *)
  • Fix attributes position in labelled arguments type
  • Add missing parens around type annotation in anonymous function
  • Fix alignment of ‘then’ keyword in parenthesised expression
  • Recognise eliom file extensions

A note for new users

We encourage you to try ocamlformat, that can be installed from opam directly ( opam install ocamlformat ), but please remember that it is still beta software. We added a FAQ for new users that should help you decide if ocamlformat is the right choice for you.

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