On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Paolo Donadeo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:p.donadeo@gmail.com">p.donadeo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For a serializer I&#39;m writing I need to parse simple OCaml type<br>
expressions composed by OCaml basic types, tuples, options and lists.</blockquote><div><br>This is pretty easy with Camlp4, although as you say there isn&#39;t much in the docs to point the way. You might take a look at how orpc does it--see the parse_type function in<br>
<br>&nbsp; <a href="http://code.google.com/p/orpc2/source/browse/trunk/src/generator/parse.ml">http://code.google.com/p/orpc2/source/browse/trunk/src/generator/parse.ml</a><br><br>(I&#39;m going to cover using Camlp4 in this way on the blog I posted yesterday, but not for another week or two.)<br>
<br>You might also look at some other Camlp4-based serialization tools, like bin-prot/type-conv at<br><br>&nbsp; <a href="http://www.ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html">http://www.ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html</a><br><br>
Jake<br><br></div></div>