[Caml-list] Fwd: Toplevel and syntax extension.

[Caml-list] Fwd: Toplevel and syntax extension.

[Philippe Veber]

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Reposting this question here, just in case.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-06-28 21:32 GMT+02:00
Subject: Toplevel and syntax extension.
To: ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com


Dear camlers,

Consider the following script:

#use "topfind";;
#camlp4o;;
#require "sexplib.syntax";;

open Sexplib.Std;;

type t = int with sexp;;

Saved as script.ml, the simple call:

ocaml script.ml

fails while the call:

cat script.ml | ocaml

succeeds. Any idea how I could fix the first call?

Cheers,
  Philippe.

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Re: [Caml-list] Fwd: Toplevel and syntax extension.

[David Sheets]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com> wrote:
> Reposting this question here, just in case.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
> Date: 2014-06-28 21:32 GMT+02:00
> Subject: Toplevel and syntax extension.
> To: ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com
>
>
> Dear camlers,
>
> Consider the following script:
>
> #use "topfind";;
> #camlp4o;;
> #require "sexplib.syntax";;
>
> open Sexplib.Std;;
>
> type t = int with sexp;;
>
> Saved as script.ml, the simple call:
>
> ocaml script.ml
>
> fails while the call:
>
> cat script.ml | ocaml
>
> succeeds. Any idea how I could fix the first call?

How does the first call fail? A difference between the two is that, in
the second, the .ocamlinit file is used. If you are using opam with
ocamlfind installed via it, this file will contain your Topdirs setup.
You can try:

let () =
  try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
  with Not_found -> ()
;;

at the top of your script (after hashbang but before directives).

Hope this helps,

David

Re: [Caml-list] Fwd: Toplevel and syntax extension.

[Philippe Veber]

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Thanks David!

The first call fails with a syntax error on "with sexp":

[pbil:~ 18:58]$cat rien.ml
let () =
  try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
  with Not_found -> ()
;;

#use "topfind";;
#camlp4o;;
#require " sexplib.syntax";;

open Sexplib.Std;;

type t = int with sexp;;

[pbil:~ 18:58]$ocaml rien.ml
File "rien.ml", line 12, characters 13-17:
Error: Syntax error

It seems like the sexp syntax extension is not loaded when the script is
evaluated. But it's not really clear to me what going wrong...

Cheers!
ph.



2014-07-01 18:51 GMT+02:00 David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu>:

> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Reposting this question here, just in case.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
> > Date: 2014-06-28 21:32 GMT+02:00
> > Subject: Toplevel and syntax extension.
> > To: ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com
> >
> >
> > Dear camlers,
> >
> > Consider the following script:
> >
> > #use "topfind";;
> > #camlp4o;;
> > #require "sexplib.syntax";;
> >
> > open Sexplib.Std;;
> >
> > type t = int with sexp;;
> >
> > Saved as script.ml, the simple call:
> >
> > ocaml script.ml
> >
> > fails while the call:
> >
> > cat script.ml | ocaml
> >
> > succeeds. Any idea how I could fix the first call?
>
> How does the first call fail? A difference between the two is that, in
> the second, the .ocamlinit file is used. If you are using opam with
> ocamlfind installed via it, this file will contain your Topdirs setup.
> You can try:
>
> let () =
>   try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>   with Not_found -> ()
> ;;
>
> at the top of your script (after hashbang but before directives).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> David
>

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Re: [Caml-list] Fwd: Toplevel and syntax extension.

[Fabrice Le Fessant]

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If I remember well, I think "ocaml" has a different behavior depending on
what it reads from:
* From a pipe, it parses every sentence and execute each one immediatly.
* From a file, it tries to parse the whole file, and then executes
everything.

In the second case, it means it will only execute the load of the syntax
extension after parsing the whole file... which will fail, since the syntax
extension is needed for that.

--Fabrice
INRIA & OCamlPro



On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks David!
>
> The first call fails with a syntax error on "with sexp":
>
> [pbil:~ 18:58]$cat rien.ml
>
> let () =
>   try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>   with Not_found -> ()
> ;;
>
> #use "topfind";;
> #camlp4o;;
> #require " sexplib.syntax";;
>
> open Sexplib.Std;;
>
> type t = int with sexp;;
>
> [pbil:~ 18:58]$ocaml rien.ml
> File "rien.ml", line 12, characters 13-17:
> Error: Syntax error
>
> It seems like the sexp syntax extension is not loaded when the script is
> evaluated. But it's not really clear to me what going wrong...
>
> Cheers!
> ph.
>
>
>
> 2014-07-01 18:51 GMT+02:00 David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu>:
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Reposting this question here, just in case.
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
>> > Date: 2014-06-28 21:32 GMT+02:00
>> > Subject: Toplevel and syntax extension.
>> > To: ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com
>> >
>> >
>> > Dear camlers,
>> >
>> > Consider the following script:
>> >
>> > #use "topfind";;
>> > #camlp4o;;
>> > #require "sexplib.syntax";;
>> >
>> > open Sexplib.Std;;
>> >
>> > type t = int with sexp;;
>> >
>> > Saved as script.ml, the simple call:
>> >
>> > ocaml script.ml
>> >
>> > fails while the call:
>> >
>> > cat script.ml | ocaml
>> >
>> > succeeds. Any idea how I could fix the first call?
>>
>> How does the first call fail? A difference between the two is that, in
>> the second, the .ocamlinit file is used. If you are using opam with
>> ocamlfind installed via it, this file will contain your Topdirs setup.
>> You can try:
>>
>> let () =
>>   try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>>   with Not_found -> ()
>> ;;
>>
>> at the top of your script (after hashbang but before directives).
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> David
>>
>
>


-- 
Fabrice LE FESSANT
Chercheur en Informatique
INRIA Paris Rocquencourt -- OCamlPro
Programming Languages and Distributed Systems

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Re: [Caml-list] Fwd: Toplevel and syntax extension.

[Philippe Veber]

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Thanks Fabrice, this perfectly explains what I observe. Is this behavior
considered the right one? Reading from a pipe is regretfully not an option
for me, as my script has command line arguments. Hence when I type:

cat script.ml | ocaml --foo --bar 1

the toplevel complains it knows nothing about the arguments foo and bar. A
"--" argument would be useful but it seems not available. If it's so, I'll
file a feature request on Mantis, since without it, there seems to be no
way to give a script to the toplevel that both takes command line arguments
and uses a syntax extension.

Thanks again!



2014-07-02 10:08 GMT+02:00 Fabrice Le Fessant <Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr>:

> If I remember well, I think "ocaml" has a different behavior depending on
> what it reads from:
> * From a pipe, it parses every sentence and execute each one immediatly.
> * From a file, it tries to parse the whole file, and then executes
> everything.
>
> In the second case, it means it will only execute the load of the syntax
> extension after parsing the whole file... which will fail, since the syntax
> extension is needed for that.
>
> --Fabrice
> INRIA & OCamlPro
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks David!
>>
>> The first call fails with a syntax error on "with sexp":
>>
>> [pbil:~ 18:58]$cat rien.ml
>>
>> let () =
>>   try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>>   with Not_found -> ()
>> ;;
>>
>> #use "topfind";;
>> #camlp4o;;
>> #require " sexplib.syntax";;
>>
>> open Sexplib.Std;;
>>
>> type t = int with sexp;;
>>
>> [pbil:~ 18:58]$ocaml rien.ml
>> File "rien.ml", line 12, characters 13-17:
>> Error: Syntax error
>>
>> It seems like the sexp syntax extension is not loaded when the script is
>> evaluated. But it's not really clear to me what going wrong...
>>
>> Cheers!
>> ph.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014-07-01 18:51 GMT+02:00 David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu>:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Reposting this question here, just in case.
>>> >
>>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> > From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
>>> > Date: 2014-06-28 21:32 GMT+02:00
>>> > Subject: Toplevel and syntax extension.
>>> > To: ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Dear camlers,
>>> >
>>> > Consider the following script:
>>> >
>>> > #use "topfind";;
>>> > #camlp4o;;
>>> > #require "sexplib.syntax";;
>>> >
>>> > open Sexplib.Std;;
>>> >
>>> > type t = int with sexp;;
>>> >
>>> > Saved as script.ml, the simple call:
>>> >
>>> > ocaml script.ml
>>> >
>>> > fails while the call:
>>> >
>>> > cat script.ml | ocaml
>>> >
>>> > succeeds. Any idea how I could fix the first call?
>>>
>>> How does the first call fail? A difference between the two is that, in
>>> the second, the .ocamlinit file is used. If you are using opam with
>>> ocamlfind installed via it, this file will contain your Topdirs setup.
>>> You can try:
>>>
>>> let () =
>>>   try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>>>   with Not_found -> ()
>>> ;;
>>>
>>> at the top of your script (after hashbang but before directives).
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Fabrice LE FESSANT
> Chercheur en Informatique
> INRIA Paris Rocquencourt -- OCamlPro
> Programming Languages and Distributed Systems
>

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Re: [Caml-list] Fwd: Toplevel and syntax extension.

[Romain Bardou]

You could write a wrapper which start the ocaml process, sends a string
containing something like:

module Sys =
struct
  include Sys
  let argv = ... (* fill this *)
end

to the ocaml process (replace the ... by the arguments given to the
wrapper, using the array syntax, and don't forget that the first cell
must contain the executable path), and then pass the contents of your
script.ml.

This does not work if your script uses other modules which themselves
use Sys.argv.

Cheers,

-- Romain Bardou

On 02/07/2014 13:48, Philippe Veber wrote:
> Thanks Fabrice, this perfectly explains what I observe. Is this behavior
> considered the right one? Reading from a pipe is regretfully not an
> option for me, as my script has command line arguments. Hence when I type:
> 
> cat script.ml <http://script.ml> | ocaml --foo --bar 1
> 
> the toplevel complains it knows nothing about the arguments foo and bar.
> A "--" argument would be useful but it seems not available. If it's so,
> I'll file a feature request on Mantis, since without it, there seems to
> be no way to give a script to the toplevel that both takes command line
> arguments and uses a syntax extension.
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> 
> 
> 2014-07-02 10:08 GMT+02:00 Fabrice Le Fessant
> <Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr <mailto:Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr>>:
> 
>     If I remember well, I think "ocaml" has a different behavior
>     depending on what it reads from: 
>     * From a pipe, it parses every sentence and execute each one
>     immediatly. 
>     * From a file, it tries to parse the whole file, and then executes
>     everything.
> 
>     In the second case, it means it will only execute the load of the
>     syntax extension after parsing the whole file... which will fail,
>     since the syntax extension is needed for that.
> 
>     --Fabrice
>     INRIA & OCamlPro
> 
> 
> 
>     On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Philippe Veber
>     <philippe.veber@gmail.com <mailto:philippe.veber@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Thanks David!
> 
>         The first call fails with a syntax error on "with sexp":
> 
>         [pbil:~ 18:58]$cat rien.ml <http://rien.ml>
> 
>         let () =
>           try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>           with Not_found -> ()
>         ;;
> 
>         #use "topfind";;
>         #camlp4o;;
>         #require " sexplib.syntax";;
> 
>         open Sexplib.Std;;
> 
>         type t = int with sexp;;
> 
>         [pbil:~ 18:58]$ocaml rien.ml <http://rien.ml>
>         File "rien.ml <http://rien.ml>", line 12, characters 13-17:
>         Error: Syntax error
> 
>         It seems like the sexp syntax extension is not loaded when the
>         script is evaluated. But it's not really clear to me what going
>         wrong...
> 
>         Cheers!
>         ph.
>          
> 
> 
>         2014-07-01 18:51 GMT+02:00 David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu
>         <mailto:sheets@alum.mit.edu>>:
> 
>             On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Philippe Veber
>             <philippe.veber@gmail.com <mailto:philippe.veber@gmail.com>>
>             wrote:
>             > Reposting this question here, just in case.
>             >
>             > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>             > From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com
>             <mailto:philippe.veber@gmail.com>>
>             > Date: 2014-06-28 21:32 GMT+02:00
>             > Subject: Toplevel and syntax extension.
>             > To: ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com
>             <mailto:ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com>
>             >
>             >
>             > Dear camlers,
>             >
>             > Consider the following script:
>             >
>             > #use "topfind";;
>             > #camlp4o;;
>             > #require "sexplib.syntax";;
>             >
>             > open Sexplib.Std;;
>             >
>             > type t = int with sexp;;
>             >
>             > Saved as script.ml <http://script.ml>, the simple call:
>             >
>             > ocaml script.ml <http://script.ml>
>             >
>             > fails while the call:
>             >
>             > cat script.ml <http://script.ml> | ocaml
>             >
>             > succeeds. Any idea how I could fix the first call?
> 
>             How does the first call fail? A difference between the two
>             is that, in
>             the second, the .ocamlinit file is used. If you are using
>             opam with
>             ocamlfind installed via it, this file will contain your
>             Topdirs setup.
>             You can try:
> 
>             let () =
>               try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>               with Not_found -> ()
>             ;;
> 
>             at the top of your script (after hashbang but before
>             directives).
> 
>             Hope this helps,
> 
>             David
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Fabrice LE FESSANT
>     Chercheur en Informatique
>     INRIA Paris Rocquencourt -- OCamlPro
>     Programming Languages and Distributed Systems
> 
> 

Re: [Caml-list] Fwd: Toplevel and syntax extension.

[Philippe Veber]

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Thanks Romain, I'll rather use Fabrice's suggestion, which handles
command-line argument more simply.

Cheers,

 Philippe.


2014-07-02 14:01 GMT+02:00 Romain Bardou <romain.bardou@inria.fr>:

> You could write a wrapper which start the ocaml process, sends a string
> containing something like:
>
> module Sys =
> struct
>   include Sys
>   let argv = ... (* fill this *)
> end
>
> to the ocaml process (replace the ... by the arguments given to the
> wrapper, using the array syntax, and don't forget that the first cell
> must contain the executable path), and then pass the contents of your
> script.ml.
>
> This does not work if your script uses other modules which themselves
> use Sys.argv.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Romain Bardou
>
> On 02/07/2014 13:48, Philippe Veber wrote:
> > Thanks Fabrice, this perfectly explains what I observe. Is this behavior
> > considered the right one? Reading from a pipe is regretfully not an
> > option for me, as my script has command line arguments. Hence when I
> type:
> >
> > cat script.ml <http://script.ml> | ocaml --foo --bar 1
> >
> > the toplevel complains it knows nothing about the arguments foo and bar.
> > A "--" argument would be useful but it seems not available. If it's so,
> > I'll file a feature request on Mantis, since without it, there seems to
> > be no way to give a script to the toplevel that both takes command line
> > arguments and uses a syntax extension.
> >
> > Thanks again!
> >
> >
> >
> > 2014-07-02 10:08 GMT+02:00 Fabrice Le Fessant
> > <Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr <mailto:Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr>>:
> >
> >     If I remember well, I think "ocaml" has a different behavior
> >     depending on what it reads from:
> >     * From a pipe, it parses every sentence and execute each one
> >     immediatly.
> >     * From a file, it tries to parse the whole file, and then executes
> >     everything.
> >
> >     In the second case, it means it will only execute the load of the
> >     syntax extension after parsing the whole file... which will fail,
> >     since the syntax extension is needed for that.
> >
> >     --Fabrice
> >     INRIA & OCamlPro
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Philippe Veber
> >     <philippe.veber@gmail.com <mailto:philippe.veber@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         Thanks David!
> >
> >         The first call fails with a syntax error on "with sexp":
> >
> >         [pbil:~ 18:58]$cat rien.ml <http://rien.ml>
> >
> >         let () =
> >           try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
> >           with Not_found -> ()
> >         ;;
> >
> >         #use "topfind";;
> >         #camlp4o;;
> >         #require " sexplib.syntax";;
> >
> >         open Sexplib.Std;;
> >
> >         type t = int with sexp;;
> >
> >         [pbil:~ 18:58]$ocaml rien.ml <http://rien.ml>
> >         File "rien.ml <http://rien.ml>", line 12, characters 13-17:
> >         Error: Syntax error
> >
> >         It seems like the sexp syntax extension is not loaded when the
> >         script is evaluated. But it's not really clear to me what going
> >         wrong...
> >
> >         Cheers!
> >         ph.
> >
> >
> >
> >         2014-07-01 18:51 GMT+02:00 David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu
> >         <mailto:sheets@alum.mit.edu>>:
> >
> >             On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Philippe Veber
> >             <philippe.veber@gmail.com <mailto:philippe.veber@gmail.com>>
> >             wrote:
> >             > Reposting this question here, just in case.
> >             >
> >             > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >             > From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com
> >             <mailto:philippe.veber@gmail.com>>
> >             > Date: 2014-06-28 21:32 GMT+02:00
> >             > Subject: Toplevel and syntax extension.
> >             > To: ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com
> >             <mailto:ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com>
> >             >
> >             >
> >             > Dear camlers,
> >             >
> >             > Consider the following script:
> >             >
> >             > #use "topfind";;
> >             > #camlp4o;;
> >             > #require "sexplib.syntax";;
> >             >
> >             > open Sexplib.Std;;
> >             >
> >             > type t = int with sexp;;
> >             >
> >             > Saved as script.ml <http://script.ml>, the simple call:
> >             >
> >             > ocaml script.ml <http://script.ml>
> >             >
> >             > fails while the call:
> >             >
> >             > cat script.ml <http://script.ml> | ocaml
> >             >
> >             > succeeds. Any idea how I could fix the first call?
> >
> >             How does the first call fail? A difference between the two
> >             is that, in
> >             the second, the .ocamlinit file is used. If you are using
> >             opam with
> >             ocamlfind installed via it, this file will contain your
> >             Topdirs setup.
> >             You can try:
> >
> >             let () =
> >               try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv
> "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
> >               with Not_found -> ()
> >             ;;
> >
> >             at the top of your script (after hashbang but before
> >             directives).
> >
> >             Hope this helps,
> >
> >             David
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     Fabrice LE FESSANT
> >     Chercheur en Informatique
> >     INRIA Paris Rocquencourt -- OCamlPro
> >     Programming Languages and Distributed Systems
> >
> >
>
>

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Re: [Caml-list] Fwd: Toplevel and syntax extension.

[Ashish Agarwal]

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Yet another option is to use ocamlscript. The following works:

$ cat script.ml
#! /usr/bin/env ocamlscript
Ocaml.ocamlflags := ["-thread"];
Ocaml.packs := ["sexplib.syntax"]
--
open Sexplib.Std
type t = int with sexp

$ ./script.ml
(* compiles without error *)




On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Romain, I'll rather use Fabrice's suggestion, which handles
> command-line argument more simply.
>
> Cheers,
>
>  Philippe.
>
>
> 2014-07-02 14:01 GMT+02:00 Romain Bardou <romain.bardou@inria.fr>:
>
> You could write a wrapper which start the ocaml process, sends a string
>> containing something like:
>>
>> module Sys =
>> struct
>>   include Sys
>>   let argv = ... (* fill this *)
>> end
>>
>> to the ocaml process (replace the ... by the arguments given to the
>> wrapper, using the array syntax, and don't forget that the first cell
>> must contain the executable path), and then pass the contents of your
>> script.ml.
>>
>> This does not work if your script uses other modules which themselves
>> use Sys.argv.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -- Romain Bardou
>>
>> On 02/07/2014 13:48, Philippe Veber wrote:
>> > Thanks Fabrice, this perfectly explains what I observe. Is this behavior
>> > considered the right one? Reading from a pipe is regretfully not an
>> > option for me, as my script has command line arguments. Hence when I
>> type:
>> >
>> > cat script.ml <http://script.ml> | ocaml --foo --bar 1
>> >
>> > the toplevel complains it knows nothing about the arguments foo and bar.
>> > A "--" argument would be useful but it seems not available. If it's so,
>> > I'll file a feature request on Mantis, since without it, there seems to
>> > be no way to give a script to the toplevel that both takes command line
>> > arguments and uses a syntax extension.
>> >
>> > Thanks again!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 2014-07-02 10:08 GMT+02:00 Fabrice Le Fessant
>> > <Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr <mailto:Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr>>:
>> >
>> >     If I remember well, I think "ocaml" has a different behavior
>> >     depending on what it reads from:
>> >     * From a pipe, it parses every sentence and execute each one
>> >     immediatly.
>> >     * From a file, it tries to parse the whole file, and then executes
>> >     everything.
>> >
>> >     In the second case, it means it will only execute the load of the
>> >     syntax extension after parsing the whole file... which will fail,
>> >     since the syntax extension is needed for that.
>> >
>> >     --Fabrice
>> >     INRIA & OCamlPro
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Philippe Veber
>> >     <philippe.veber@gmail.com <mailto:philippe.veber@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >         Thanks David!
>> >
>> >         The first call fails with a syntax error on "with sexp":
>> >
>> >         [pbil:~ 18:58]$cat rien.ml <http://rien.ml>
>> >
>> >         let () =
>> >           try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>> >           with Not_found -> ()
>> >         ;;
>> >
>> >         #use "topfind";;
>> >         #camlp4o;;
>> >         #require " sexplib.syntax";;
>> >
>> >         open Sexplib.Std;;
>> >
>> >         type t = int with sexp;;
>> >
>> >         [pbil:~ 18:58]$ocaml rien.ml <http://rien.ml>
>> >         File "rien.ml <http://rien.ml>", line 12, characters 13-17:
>> >         Error: Syntax error
>> >
>> >         It seems like the sexp syntax extension is not loaded when the
>> >         script is evaluated. But it's not really clear to me what going
>> >         wrong...
>> >
>> >         Cheers!
>> >         ph.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >         2014-07-01 18:51 GMT+02:00 David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu
>> >         <mailto:sheets@alum.mit.edu>>:
>> >
>> >             On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Philippe Veber
>> >             <philippe.veber@gmail.com <mailto:philippe.veber@gmail.com
>> >>
>> >             wrote:
>> >             > Reposting this question here, just in case.
>> >             >
>> >             > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >             > From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com
>> >             <mailto:philippe.veber@gmail.com>>
>> >             > Date: 2014-06-28 21:32 GMT+02:00
>> >             > Subject: Toplevel and syntax extension.
>> >             > To: ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com
>> >             <mailto:ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com>
>> >             >
>> >             >
>> >             > Dear camlers,
>> >             >
>> >             > Consider the following script:
>> >             >
>> >             > #use "topfind";;
>> >             > #camlp4o;;
>> >             > #require "sexplib.syntax";;
>> >             >
>> >             > open Sexplib.Std;;
>> >             >
>> >             > type t = int with sexp;;
>> >             >
>> >             > Saved as script.ml <http://script.ml>, the simple call:
>> >             >
>> >             > ocaml script.ml <http://script.ml>
>> >             >
>> >             > fails while the call:
>> >             >
>> >             > cat script.ml <http://script.ml> | ocaml
>> >             >
>> >             > succeeds. Any idea how I could fix the first call?
>> >
>> >             How does the first call fail? A difference between the two
>> >             is that, in
>> >             the second, the .ocamlinit file is used. If you are using
>> >             opam with
>> >             ocamlfind installed via it, this file will contain your
>> >             Topdirs setup.
>> >             You can try:
>> >
>> >             let () =
>> >               try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv
>> "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>> >               with Not_found -> ()
>> >             ;;
>> >
>> >             at the top of your script (after hashbang but before
>> >             directives).
>> >
>> >             Hope this helps,
>> >
>> >             David
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     --
>> >     Fabrice LE FESSANT
>> >     Chercheur en Informatique
>> >     INRIA Paris Rocquencourt -- OCamlPro
>> >     Programming Languages and Distributed Systems
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>

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[Philippe Veber]

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That's particularly neat! Not only does it work (I thought ocamlscript
wouldn't accept syntax extensions, and did not even try), but also it gets
me native code speed for free. Thanks Ashish (and Martin, of course)!



2014-07-02 17:20 GMT+02:00 Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>:

> Yet another option is to use ocamlscript. The following works:
>
> $ cat script.ml
> #! /usr/bin/env ocamlscript
> Ocaml.ocamlflags := ["-thread"];
> Ocaml.packs := ["sexplib.syntax"]
> --
>
> open Sexplib.Std
> type t = int with sexp
>
> $ ./script.ml
> (* compiles without error *)
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Romain, I'll rather use Fabrice's suggestion, which handles
>> command-line argument more simply.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>  Philippe.
>>
>>
>> 2014-07-02 14:01 GMT+02:00 Romain Bardou <romain.bardou@inria.fr>:
>>
>> You could write a wrapper which start the ocaml process, sends a string
>>> containing something like:
>>>
>>> module Sys =
>>> struct
>>>   include Sys
>>>   let argv = ... (* fill this *)
>>> end
>>>
>>> to the ocaml process (replace the ... by the arguments given to the
>>> wrapper, using the array syntax, and don't forget that the first cell
>>> must contain the executable path), and then pass the contents of your
>>> script.ml.
>>>
>>> This does not work if your script uses other modules which themselves
>>> use Sys.argv.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> -- Romain Bardou
>>>
>>> On 02/07/2014 13:48, Philippe Veber wrote:
>>> > Thanks Fabrice, this perfectly explains what I observe. Is this
>>> behavior
>>> > considered the right one? Reading from a pipe is regretfully not an
>>> > option for me, as my script has command line arguments. Hence when I
>>> type:
>>> >
>>> > cat script.ml <http://script.ml> | ocaml --foo --bar 1
>>> >
>>> > the toplevel complains it knows nothing about the arguments foo and
>>> bar.
>>> > A "--" argument would be useful but it seems not available. If it's so,
>>> > I'll file a feature request on Mantis, since without it, there seems to
>>> > be no way to give a script to the toplevel that both takes command line
>>> > arguments and uses a syntax extension.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks again!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > 2014-07-02 10:08 GMT+02:00 Fabrice Le Fessant
>>> > <Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr <mailto:Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr>>:
>>> >
>>> >     If I remember well, I think "ocaml" has a different behavior
>>> >     depending on what it reads from:
>>> >     * From a pipe, it parses every sentence and execute each one
>>> >     immediatly.
>>> >     * From a file, it tries to parse the whole file, and then executes
>>> >     everything.
>>> >
>>> >     In the second case, it means it will only execute the load of the
>>> >     syntax extension after parsing the whole file... which will fail,
>>> >     since the syntax extension is needed for that.
>>> >
>>> >     --Fabrice
>>> >     INRIA & OCamlPro
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >     On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Philippe Veber
>>> >     <philippe.veber@gmail.com <mailto:philippe.veber@gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >         Thanks David!
>>> >
>>> >         The first call fails with a syntax error on "with sexp":
>>> >
>>> >         [pbil:~ 18:58]$cat rien.ml <http://rien.ml>
>>> >
>>> >         let () =
>>> >           try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>>> >           with Not_found -> ()
>>> >         ;;
>>> >
>>> >         #use "topfind";;
>>> >         #camlp4o;;
>>> >         #require " sexplib.syntax";;
>>> >
>>> >         open Sexplib.Std;;
>>> >
>>> >         type t = int with sexp;;
>>> >
>>> >         [pbil:~ 18:58]$ocaml rien.ml <http://rien.ml>
>>> >         File "rien.ml <http://rien.ml>", line 12, characters 13-17:
>>> >         Error: Syntax error
>>> >
>>> >         It seems like the sexp syntax extension is not loaded when the
>>> >         script is evaluated. But it's not really clear to me what going
>>> >         wrong...
>>> >
>>> >         Cheers!
>>> >         ph.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >         2014-07-01 18:51 GMT+02:00 David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu
>>> >         <mailto:sheets@alum.mit.edu>>:
>>> >
>>> >             On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Philippe Veber
>>> >             <philippe.veber@gmail.com <mailto:philippe.veber@gmail.com
>>> >>
>>> >             wrote:
>>> >             > Reposting this question here, just in case.
>>> >             >
>>> >             > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> >             > From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com
>>> >             <mailto:philippe.veber@gmail.com>>
>>> >             > Date: 2014-06-28 21:32 GMT+02:00
>>> >             > Subject: Toplevel and syntax extension.
>>> >             > To: ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com
>>> >             <mailto:ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com>
>>> >             >
>>> >             >
>>> >             > Dear camlers,
>>> >             >
>>> >             > Consider the following script:
>>> >             >
>>> >             > #use "topfind";;
>>> >             > #camlp4o;;
>>> >             > #require "sexplib.syntax";;
>>> >             >
>>> >             > open Sexplib.Std;;
>>> >             >
>>> >             > type t = int with sexp;;
>>> >             >
>>> >             > Saved as script.ml <http://script.ml>, the simple call:
>>> >             >
>>> >             > ocaml script.ml <http://script.ml>
>>> >             >
>>> >             > fails while the call:
>>> >             >
>>> >             > cat script.ml <http://script.ml> | ocaml
>>> >             >
>>> >             > succeeds. Any idea how I could fix the first call?
>>> >
>>> >             How does the first call fail? A difference between the two
>>> >             is that, in
>>> >             the second, the .ocamlinit file is used. If you are using
>>> >             opam with
>>> >             ocamlfind installed via it, this file will contain your
>>> >             Topdirs setup.
>>> >             You can try:
>>> >
>>> >             let () =
>>> >               try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv
>>> "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>>> >               with Not_found -> ()
>>> >             ;;
>>> >
>>> >             at the top of your script (after hashbang but before
>>> >             directives).
>>> >
>>> >             Hope this helps,
>>> >
>>> >             David
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >     --
>>> >     Fabrice LE FESSANT
>>> >     Chercheur en Informatique
>>> >     INRIA Paris Rocquencourt -- OCamlPro
>>> >     Programming Languages and Distributed Systems
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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[Fabrice Le Fessant]

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You might want to split your file in two different files, a loader and the
body:

 peerocaml:~%  cat > script_body.ml
open Sexplib.Std;;
type t = int with sexp;;
 peerocaml:~%  cat > script.ml
#use "topfind";;
#camlp4o;;
#require "sexplib.syntax";;
#use "script_body.ml"
 peerocaml:~%  ocaml script.ml

--Fabrice
INRIA & OCamlPro




On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Fabrice, this perfectly explains what I observe. Is this behavior
> considered the right one? Reading from a pipe is regretfully not an option
> for me, as my script has command line arguments. Hence when I type:
>
> cat script.ml | ocaml --foo --bar 1
>
> the toplevel complains it knows nothing about the arguments foo and bar. A
> "--" argument would be useful but it seems not available. If it's so, I'll
> file a feature request on Mantis, since without it, there seems to be no
> way to give a script to the toplevel that both takes command line arguments
> and uses a syntax extension.
>
> Thanks again!
>
>
>
> 2014-07-02 10:08 GMT+02:00 Fabrice Le Fessant <Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr
> >:
>
> If I remember well, I think "ocaml" has a different behavior depending on
>> what it reads from:
>> * From a pipe, it parses every sentence and execute each one immediatly.
>> * From a file, it tries to parse the whole file, and then executes
>> everything.
>>
>> In the second case, it means it will only execute the load of the syntax
>> extension after parsing the whole file... which will fail, since the syntax
>> extension is needed for that.
>>
>> --Fabrice
>> INRIA & OCamlPro
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks David!
>>>
>>> The first call fails with a syntax error on "with sexp":
>>>
>>> [pbil:~ 18:58]$cat rien.ml
>>>
>>> let () =
>>>   try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>>>   with Not_found -> ()
>>> ;;
>>>
>>> #use "topfind";;
>>> #camlp4o;;
>>> #require " sexplib.syntax";;
>>>
>>> open Sexplib.Std;;
>>>
>>> type t = int with sexp;;
>>>
>>> [pbil:~ 18:58]$ocaml rien.ml
>>> File "rien.ml", line 12, characters 13-17:
>>> Error: Syntax error
>>>
>>> It seems like the sexp syntax extension is not loaded when the script is
>>> evaluated. But it's not really clear to me what going wrong...
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>> ph.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-07-01 18:51 GMT+02:00 David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu>:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Reposting this question here, just in case.
>>>> >
>>>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> > From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
>>>> > Date: 2014-06-28 21:32 GMT+02:00
>>>> > Subject: Toplevel and syntax extension.
>>>> > To: ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Dear camlers,
>>>> >
>>>> > Consider the following script:
>>>> >
>>>> > #use "topfind";;
>>>> > #camlp4o;;
>>>> > #require "sexplib.syntax";;
>>>> >
>>>> > open Sexplib.Std;;
>>>> >
>>>> > type t = int with sexp;;
>>>> >
>>>> > Saved as script.ml, the simple call:
>>>> >
>>>> > ocaml script.ml
>>>> >
>>>> > fails while the call:
>>>> >
>>>> > cat script.ml | ocaml
>>>> >
>>>> > succeeds. Any idea how I could fix the first call?
>>>>
>>>> How does the first call fail? A difference between the two is that, in
>>>> the second, the .ocamlinit file is used. If you are using opam with
>>>> ocamlfind installed via it, this file will contain your Topdirs setup.
>>>> You can try:
>>>>
>>>> let () =
>>>>   try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>>>>   with Not_found -> ()
>>>> ;;
>>>>
>>>> at the top of your script (after hashbang but before directives).
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Fabrice LE FESSANT
>> Chercheur en Informatique
>> INRIA Paris Rocquencourt -- OCamlPro
>> Programming Languages and Distributed Systems
>>
>
>


-- 
Fabrice LE FESSANT
Chercheur en Informatique
INRIA Paris Rocquencourt -- OCamlPro
Programming Languages and Distributed Systems

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[Philippe Veber]

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Indeed, that works well (I wouldn't have thought so!) and is definitely not
(too) cumbersome. Thanks!


2014-07-02 14:51 GMT+02:00 Fabrice Le Fessant <Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr>:

> You might want to split your file in two different files, a loader and the
> body:
>
>  peerocaml:~%  cat > script_body.ml
> open Sexplib.Std;;
> type t = int with sexp;;
>  peerocaml:~%  cat > script.ml
> #use "topfind";;
> #camlp4o;;
> #require "sexplib.syntax";;
>  #use "script_body.ml"
>  peerocaml:~%  ocaml script.ml
>
> --Fabrice
> INRIA & OCamlPro
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Fabrice, this perfectly explains what I observe. Is this behavior
>> considered the right one? Reading from a pipe is regretfully not an option
>> for me, as my script has command line arguments. Hence when I type:
>>
>> cat script.ml | ocaml --foo --bar 1
>>
>> the toplevel complains it knows nothing about the arguments foo and bar.
>> A "--" argument would be useful but it seems not available. If it's so,
>> I'll file a feature request on Mantis, since without it, there seems to be
>> no way to give a script to the toplevel that both takes command line
>> arguments and uses a syntax extension.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014-07-02 10:08 GMT+02:00 Fabrice Le Fessant <
>> Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr>:
>>
>> If I remember well, I think "ocaml" has a different behavior depending on
>>> what it reads from:
>>> * From a pipe, it parses every sentence and execute each one immediatly.
>>> * From a file, it tries to parse the whole file, and then executes
>>> everything.
>>>
>>> In the second case, it means it will only execute the load of the syntax
>>> extension after parsing the whole file... which will fail, since the syntax
>>> extension is needed for that.
>>>
>>> --Fabrice
>>> INRIA & OCamlPro
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks David!
>>>>
>>>> The first call fails with a syntax error on "with sexp":
>>>>
>>>> [pbil:~ 18:58]$cat rien.ml
>>>>
>>>> let () =
>>>>   try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>>>>   with Not_found -> ()
>>>> ;;
>>>>
>>>> #use "topfind";;
>>>> #camlp4o;;
>>>> #require " sexplib.syntax";;
>>>>
>>>> open Sexplib.Std;;
>>>>
>>>> type t = int with sexp;;
>>>>
>>>> [pbil:~ 18:58]$ocaml rien.ml
>>>> File "rien.ml", line 12, characters 13-17:
>>>> Error: Syntax error
>>>>
>>>> It seems like the sexp syntax extension is not loaded when the script
>>>> is evaluated. But it's not really clear to me what going wrong...
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
>>>> ph.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2014-07-01 18:51 GMT+02:00 David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu>:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Philippe Veber <
>>>>> philippe.veber@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> > Reposting this question here, just in case.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> > From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
>>>>> > Date: 2014-06-28 21:32 GMT+02:00
>>>>> > Subject: Toplevel and syntax extension.
>>>>> > To: ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Dear camlers,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Consider the following script:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > #use "topfind";;
>>>>> > #camlp4o;;
>>>>> > #require "sexplib.syntax";;
>>>>> >
>>>>> > open Sexplib.Std;;
>>>>> >
>>>>> > type t = int with sexp;;
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Saved as script.ml, the simple call:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > ocaml script.ml
>>>>> >
>>>>> > fails while the call:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > cat script.ml | ocaml
>>>>> >
>>>>> > succeeds. Any idea how I could fix the first call?
>>>>>
>>>>> How does the first call fail? A difference between the two is that, in
>>>>> the second, the .ocamlinit file is used. If you are using opam with
>>>>> ocamlfind installed via it, this file will contain your Topdirs setup.
>>>>> You can try:
>>>>>
>>>>> let () =
>>>>>   try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
>>>>>   with Not_found -> ()
>>>>> ;;
>>>>>
>>>>> at the top of your script (after hashbang but before directives).
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Fabrice LE FESSANT
>>> Chercheur en Informatique
>>> INRIA Paris Rocquencourt -- OCamlPro
>>> Programming Languages and Distributed Systems
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Fabrice LE FESSANT
> Chercheur en Informatique
> INRIA Paris Rocquencourt -- OCamlPro
> Programming Languages and Distributed Systems
>

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