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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] adding a scripting language to an ocaml program
From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
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On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
>
> You can embed a Perl interpreter and call out to Perl code using
> perl4caml's Perl.eval function. =A0The API is even "type safe" in as
> much as you can construct and examine the values going between the
> Perl and the OCaml code, and detect errors at runtime (at compile time
> too in some circumstances).
>
> http://git.annexia.org/?p=3Dperl4caml.git;a=3Dblob;f=3Dperl.mli;h=3D64d79=
04eb633bcc410f796d19e289bca49931bb5;hb=3DHEAD#l258
>
> Your users might not thank you for this ...

Probably not :) My primary concern is that the editor won't be snappy
enough - Yi definitely has that problem, for instance - which is why I
was hoping for a scripting language that people were using and
optimising for speed.

martin