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title: OCamlFormat open-source released
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author: Josh Berdine
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We are pleased to announce the first public release of OCamlFormat.
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OCamlFormat is a tool to automatically format [OCaml](https://ocaml.org/) code.
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It follows the same basic design as refmt for
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[Reason](https://reasonml.github.io/) code, but for OCaml. In particular, it
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works by parsing source code using the OCaml compiler's standard parser,
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deciding where to place comments in the parsetree, and printing the parsetree
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and comments in a uniform style.
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At Facebook, we currently use this for the OCaml code of
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[Infer](https://github.com/facebook/infer) to enable developers to stop thinking
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about line breaking, indentation, parenthesization, etc., to minimize stylistic
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nit-picking during code review, and to make it as visually obvious as possible
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when the parser's interpretation of code does not match the programmer's. We use
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this both with integration with editors as well as a pre-commit hook.
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Development is taking place on
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[github](http://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ocamlformat). License is MIT.
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See the [github page](http://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ocamlformat) for more info on
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installation, documentation, contributing, etc.
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