[Caml-list] Returning an element computed with Toploop

[Jean-Baptiste Jeannin <jeannin@cs.cornell.edu>]

Hello all,

Thanks to Jonathan Kimmitt on this mailing list, I learned about the existence of the Toploop module, that allows to execute OCaml code from a string. For example, one can do:

# Toploop.execute_phrase true Format.err_formatter
((!Toploop.parse_toplevel_phrase) (Lexing.from_string "355./.113.;;"));;
- : float = 3.14159292035398252
- : bool = true

However I could not find any official documentation of the module on the internet. In particular, the example above only prints out what was computed and returns a boolean (true or false), depending on how the computation terminated. I would like to compute an element and get the element back to be able to use it later in the computation. Is that possible and how could I do it?

Thanks a lot,
Jean-Baptiste