Re: [Caml-list] smarter #load directive

["Gerd Stolpmann" <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

> Following the caml-list discussion, and PR submission #5825 by
> Grégoire Henry (with a patch!), the directive #mod_use "foo.ml" was
> added in trunk last November.
>
> It does not correspond to "load" because the module is not compiled
> using ocamlc (no .cmo is produced), but compiled by the toplevel in
> the current toplevel environment. The current implementation is a bit
> hackish, I think, and in particular toplevel directives are not
> allowed inside foo.ml -- I think they even are silently dropped. It
> behaves exactly as if you entered "module Foo = <content of foo.ml
> (minus toplevel directives)> end;;" directly in the toplevel.

So far I remember, this is the intended meaning. Directives do not make
sense inside modules. If they are not rejected, I'd consider this as an
error, though.

Gerd

> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>
> wrote:
>> On 05/13/2013 10:48 AM, Francois Berenger wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Was this integrated in the subversion trunk?
>>>
>>> I mean the
>>> #load "toto.ml";;
>>> that creates a Toto module automatically.
>>
>>
>> Or was it '#use "toto.ml";;' ?
>>
>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> F.
>>>
>>
>>
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