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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Mykola Stryebkov <nick@mykola.org>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Generation of Java code from OCaml
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:57:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090923195713.GA12236@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46ACB6F9-FFAE-4C9C-9E46-21CA2E93434C@mykola.org>

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:15:08PM +0300, Mykola Stryebkov wrote:
> I need to generate arbitrary text (more specifically, Java code) from  
> Ocaml structures, pretty similar to how json-static lib generates  
> ocaml code from ocaml structures.
> 
> Which approach would you recommend?
> Is it possible to use ocamlp4 for it?

Do you want to generate valid Java code (or an AST) or just string
bits of text together?

FWIW we generate 100's of thousands of lines of C, Java and other
languages using OCaml in libguestfs (by stringing bits of text
together):

http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=src/generator.ml;hb=HEAD

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-23 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-23 18:15 Mykola Stryebkov
2009-09-23 19:57 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2009-09-23 22:54   ` [Caml-list] " Mykola Stryebkov
2009-09-24  8:03     ` David Allsopp
2009-09-24  9:45       ` blue storm
2009-09-24 11:18         ` Martin Jambon
2009-09-24 12:02           ` blue storm
2009-09-24 12:19             ` Martin Jambon
2009-10-03 12:16               ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2009-10-03 17:27                 ` blue storm
2009-10-03 18:29                   ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2009-09-26  7:37             ` ygrek

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