Re: [Caml-list] Unset or remove an OCaml callback registration

["Hezekiah M. Carty" <hcarty@atmos.umd.edu>]

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008, Jacques Garrigue wrote:

> From: "Hezekiah M. Carty" <hcarty@atmos.umd.edu>
> > Is this possible, either from the C or OCaml side without making the
> > callback associate with "foo" an option type (use (Callback.register
> > "foo" (Some some_func)) to set a callback and (Callback.register "foo"
> > None) to clear it)?
> 
> Since Callback.register has type: string -> 'a -> unit
> you are not limited by the ocaml type system.
> So you can reset your value with
>   Callback.register "foo" 0
> and check for equality with Val_int(0) on the C side.
> (Note that you must initialize the value to 0 at program startup,
> because the default for an unitialized value is 0 which is not
> Val_int(0))

If I wrap the C interface in an OCaml module, would it be enough to
include:

let () = Callback.register "foo" 0

in the top level of the module to have this command execute when the
module is loaded?  Or does the module user have to do some explicit
initialization?

Thank you very much for the response,
Hez