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From: Jeremy Yallop <jeremy.yallop@ed.ac.uk>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: Antony Courtney <antony.courtney@gmail.com>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Newbie question: OCaml equivalent of Haskell's show?
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:08:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <487269B9.6020502@ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080706190203.GA16430@annexia.org>

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:33:35AM -0400, Antony Courtney wrote:
>> I'm an experienced Haskell hacker trying OCaml for the first time.
>>
>> One thing I am desperately searching for but have been unable to find
>> is some direct runtime access to the string representation of
>> arbitrary OCaml values.
> 
>   http://code.google.com/p/deriving/

For what it's worth, with deriving you can obtain a string 
representation of your value (`v', say) like this:

    Show.show<float option array array> v

Jeremy.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-07 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-06 15:33 Antony Courtney
2008-07-06 19:02 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2008-07-07 19:08   ` Jeremy Yallop [this message]
2008-07-06 21:09 ` Jon Harrop

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