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From: Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] how to convert strings to Ocaml values at run-time?
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:30:21 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <530AA0AD.6050008@riken.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530A590B.2040004@gmail.com>

On 02/24/2014 05:24 AM, Matej Kosik wrote:
> On 23/02/14 13:12, Tianyi Cui wrote:
>> If you know the type of this string in advance, you can do so with ocaml_plugin: https://github.com/janestreet/ocaml_plugin
>
> Hm, imagine that the expected type is:
>
> 	'a * 'a -> bool
>
> Now, if user provides a string, say:
>
> 	"fun (a,b) -> a = b"
>
> how can I convert that string to Ocaml value of the above type (like how toplevel does it)?
>
> Is this something ocaml_plugin is able to do for me? I've failed to figure out the trick.

I think MLdonkey could do that, but I have no idea how it was doing it.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-24  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-23 12:23 Matej Kosik
2014-02-23 13:12 ` Tianyi Cui
2014-02-23 20:24   ` Matej Kosik
2014-02-24  1:30     ` Francois Berenger [this message]
2014-02-24  5:05     ` Tianyi Cui
2014-02-24 13:48     ` Matthias Puech

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