The main point is to avoid dragging __LOC__ to line 9, and use a
function/operator instead. It would look pretty ugly to have: report __LOC__
"bad bug".

Thanks.

On 25 July 2017 at 22:17, Viet Le <vietlq85@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to write a logger in OCaml. In C++ it's pretty
> straightforward with macro expansion that gives correct call site (file &
> line):
>
> $ cat -n cpp-logger.cpp
>      1 #include <iostream>
>      2
>      3 #define LOG_START do {\
>      4    std::cerr << __FILE__ << ":" << __LINE__ << ": "
>      5 #define LOG_END std::endl; } while (0)
>      6
>      7 int main()
>      8 {
>      9    LOG_START << "Got problem!" << LOG_END;
>     10    return 0;
>     11 }
>
> $ ./a.out
> cpp-logger.cpp:9: Got problem!
>
> In OCaml we have __LOC__ and __LOC_OF__:
>
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Pervasives.html
>
> However it's not trivial to get correct call site:
>
> $ cat -n yahoo.ml
>      1  print_string "yahoo\n";;
>      2
>      3  Printf.printf "__LOC__ = %s\n" __LOC__;;
>      4
>      5  let report s =
>      6      let loc, _ = __LOC_OF__ s in
>      7      Printf.printf "LOC of the expression (%s): %s\n" s loc ;;
>      8
>      9  report "bad bug" ;;
>
> $ ./a.outyahoo
> __LOC__ = File "yahoo.ml", line 3, characters 31-38
> LOC of the expression (bad bug): File "yahoo.ml", line 6, characters 28-29
>
> I expect line 9 but I get line 6 in OCaml. I would appreciate some help to
> get this working. Does it involve campl4/5 / ppx?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Viet
>



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Kind regards,
Viet