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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Literate (sort-of) programming in OCaml

On 09/02/2013 06:39 PM, Jonathan Protzenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently writing a big, mostly textual document in format blah 
> (blah being of a course a meta-variable). Are there any tools that 
> would allow me to interleave OCaml code with the contents of my 
> document?
> 
> More on my use-case. Creating this document requires me to perform 
> various subtasks, such as:
> - write a code snippet in the document,
> - put the code snippet in a file,
> - call an external program on the file,
> - paste the output into the document.
> 
> Naturally, I wish to automate this. I could roll my own set of 
> commands, and parse them with OCaml, but I would be re-creating a 
> scripting language, and it seems to me that interleaving OCaml code 
> within my document would be better. Here's what I have in mind:
> 
> 
> blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 
> blah blah
> blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 
> blah blah
> blah ... we thus write the following code ... :
> 
> {%
>   let code = "<sample code>" in
>   output code
> %}
> 
> blah blah blah ... after running the command blah ... the output is as 
> follows ... blah
> 
> {%
>   let f = write_into_temp_file code in
>   let s = run_and_read "myprogram" [f] in
>   output s
> %}
> 
> blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 
> blah blah ...
> 
> 
> Are you aware of any tool that would allow me to achieve this?

http://zoggy.github.io/stog/posts/ocaml-sessions.html
https://github.com/realworldocaml/scripts

There are probably others.

Best regards,
--Edwin