From: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@jdh30.plus.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml expression evaluated in a OCaml program
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:08:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <891bd33905020709081e4fc18a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502071647.29407.jon@jdh30.plus.com>
There's also Lua-ML, which is used by the C-- project as an embedded
scripting language.
http://www.cminusminus.org/code.html#luaml
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:47:29 +0000, Jon Harrop <jon@jdh30.plus.com> wrote:
> On Monday 07 February 2005 16:13, Nicolas Dufour wrote:
> > sejourne_kevin wrote:
> > > Nicolas Dufour a écrit :
> > >> I try to know if I can evaluate OCaml expressions in a OCaml program
> > >> during runtime ??
> > >
> > > This is not possible. But you can try something with the toplevel:
> > > http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200404/msg00282.html
> >
> > damned .. not possible .....
> > I hope it exists scriptic languages embedded in ocaml ... or i will have
> > to create one ... oh boy ....
>
> I've done exactly this though, by spitting out an ocaml program, compiling it
> with ocamlopt (linked against the running program) and invoking it using
> marshalling to shuffle data back and forth. This is quite easy to implement
> and is the simplest way to write a JIT compiler in ocaml.
>
> If you don't really want to execute ocaml code but, rather, simple expressions
> then you can write your own interpreter quite easily. Many tutorials cover
> this. If you want to provide access to a few calls in your interpreter then
> you can simply implement them in your own little language. There are many
> tutorials on ocaml which describe simple interpreters.
>
> --
> Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-07 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-07 13:42 Nicolas Dufour
2005-02-07 16:17 ` [Caml-list] " sejourne_kevin
2005-02-07 16:13 ` Nicolas Dufour
2005-02-07 16:47 ` Jon Harrop
2005-02-07 17:08 ` Yaron Minsky [this message]
2005-02-07 17:21 ` Vincenzo Ciancia
2005-02-07 20:31 ` [Caml-list] " Robert Roessler
2005-02-07 20:42 ` Brock
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