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From: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
To: Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons <dofp.ocaml@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] JavaScript interpreter in OCaml
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:40:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DA89D1DF-0557-4CDF-8A69-F9075A9E740D@metastack.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHqiZ-K9w1e79mMUs1t_oAg-iPVJgxbg96pmCw1rftk1g17N5w@mail.gmail.com>

On 25 Jul 2012, at 14:38, "Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons" <dofp.ocaml@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have a JavaScript interpreter in OCaml ? Doesn't need to
> be 100% compliant, the user can always rewritte some parts of the
> JavaScript. And we discourage using weird / complex JavaScript
> constructions anyway. Alternatively, a JavaScript -> OCaml source to
> source translator could be good as well.

I don't know whether you mean written in pure OCaml or just usable from OCaml. For the latter, I've used Alain Frisch's SpiderCaml: http://alain.frisch.fr/soft.html#spider

Personally, I'd say that linking to a well-maintained interpreter is a better solution than yet another implementation of JavaScript with all the warts that go with doing that.

HTH,


David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-25 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-25 13:38 Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2012-07-25 15:22 ` Pierre-Alexandre Voye
2012-07-25 15:40 ` David Allsopp [this message]
2012-07-25 18:32 ` Stéphane Glondu
2012-07-25 20:21   ` Alan Schmitt

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