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From: Jeremy Yallop <jeremy.yallop@ed.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Newbie question: OCaml equivalent of Haskell's show?
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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.