Re: [Caml-list] view types in ocaml?

[Remi VANICAT <vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr>]

Ed L Cashin <cashin@cs.uga.edu> writes:

> Hi.  I like ocamlbrowser well enough, but is there a way to view type
> info right from the interactive ocaml prompt?
>
> Here's what I'm thinking of (which won't work, of course).
>
>           Objective Caml version 3.06
>   
>   # #load "unix.cma";;
>   # Unix.LargeFile.lseek;;
>   - : Unix.file_descr -> int64 -> Unix.seek_command -> int64 = <fun>
>   # Unix.LargeFile.stats;;
>   type stats = {
>     st_dev : int;

[...]

>     st_ctime : float;
>   } 

well, there is alway the module redefinition trick :

  # module M = Unix.LargeFile;;
   module M :
     sig
       val lseek : Unix.file_descr -> int64 -> Unix.seek_command -> int64

[...]

    type stats =
      Unix.LargeFile.stats = {
      st_dev : int;

[...]

      st_ctime : float;
    }
    val stat : string -> stats
    val lstat : string -> stats
    val fstat : Unix.file_descr -> stats
  end


of course, for very big module, this is not a solution.

-- 
Rémi Vanicat
vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr
http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vanicat
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