From: Dave Benjamin <dave@ramenlabs.com>
To: Roland Zumkeller <roland.zumkeller@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Toploop.setvalue
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:53:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B9E6E7.5040109@ramenlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d02dcb040903081443w7cecf435kdfaf4881a8b2994c@mail.gmail.com>
Roland Zumkeller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can Toploop.setvalue be used to bind a value to an identifier, as does "let"?
>
> # Toploop.setvalue "b" (Obj.repr 43);;
> - : unit = ()
> # b;;
> Unbound value b
>
> I only got the other direction to work:
>
> # let a = 42;;
> val a : int = 42
> # (Obj.obj (Toploop.getvalue "a") : int);;
> - : int = 42
Not that I know of. I was only able to get it to rebind values that I
initialized by evaluating expressions like "let b = 43;;". Here's an
example:
http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ocaml/strings.html#AEN68
Hope this helps - and if anyone has better advice I'd love to hear it,
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-13 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-08 21:43 Toploop.setvalue Roland Zumkeller
2009-03-13 4:53 ` Dave Benjamin [this message]
2009-03-13 15:22 ` Toploop.setvalue Zheng Li
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