[Caml-list] Best way to generate OCaml code

[Caml-list] Best way to generate OCaml code

[Christoph Höger]

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Dear all,

what is the state-of-the-art way to generate (programmatically) and
pretty-print a valid OCaml AST? Should I use camlp4 or is there a
standalone-library?

regards,

Christoph
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Christoph Höger

Technische Universität Berlin
Fakultät IV - Elektrotechnik und Informatik
Übersetzerbau und Programmiersprachen

Sekr. TEL12-2, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin

Tel.: +49 (30) 314-24890
E-Mail: christoph.hoeger@tu-berlin.de
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Re: [Caml-list] Best way to generate OCaml code

[Jeremie Dimino]

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Hi Christoph,

what is the state-of-the-art way to generate (programmatically) and
> pretty-print a valid OCaml AST? Should I use camlp4 or is there a
> standalone-library?
>

Camlp4 is being deprecated and will be distributed as a separate
package starting with OCaml 4.02. You should now use the compiler
libraries which export the same AST used by the compiler [1] as well
as pretty-printers [2]. These are available through the findlib package
compiler-libs.common. To help produce the AST you can use ppx_tools [3].

 [1] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/trunk/parsing/parsetree.mli
 [2] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/trunk/parsing/pprintast.mli
 [3] https://github.com/alainfrisch/ppx_tools

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Jeremie

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