From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id AAA11613; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 00:14:43 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA11592 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 00:14:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from rabelais.socialtools.net (rabelais.socialtools.net [81.2.94.243]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i37MEfYM030231 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 00:14:41 +0200 Received: by rabelais.socialtools.net (Postfix, from userid 108) id 3122323330; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 23:14:41 +0100 (BST) Received: from socialtools.net (chaucer.socialtools.net [81.2.94.242]) by rabelais.socialtools.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 330882332F; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 23:14:40 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <40747D47.101@socialtools.net> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 23:14:31 +0100 From: Benjamin Geer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, fr, it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Goerzen Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Dynamically evaluating OCaml code References: <20040407203938.GC26323@excelhustler.com> In-Reply-To: <20040407203938.GC26323@excelhustler.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on rabelais.socialtools.net X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 dynamically:01 sourceforge:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 caml:01 config:02 wrote:03 scheme:03 scheme:03 let:04 group:04 reads:07 benjamin:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 116 John Goerzen wrote: > I'm looking at being able to let > people insert OCaml expressions directly into otherwise plain-text > config files. One option you might not have considered is using Schoca, Christoph Bauer's implementation of the Scheme language in Caml: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2598 Schoca contains an example Caml program that reads a configuration file written in Scheme. Scheme has a lot going for it as an extension language; for one thing, it's very easy to learn. Ben ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners