On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Roland Zumkeller <roland.zumkeller@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible to modify the toplevel's behavior such that it silently
ignores any re-definitions of already bound identifiers (without
recompiling)? I would like to achieve the following:

# let x = 0;;
val x : int = 0
# let x = 1;;
# x;;
- : int = 0

The following code is supposed to replace all toplevel phrases by
"();;" during parsing (just as an experiment, it renders the toplevel
useless of course).

let original = !Toploop.parse_toplevel_phrase;;

Toploop.parse_toplevel_phrase :=
fun _ -> original (Lexing.from_string ("();;"));;

After executing this, a non-terminating sequence is shown:
- : unit = ()
- : unit = ()
- : unit = ()
...

I'm probably not using the right hook. Any insight would be appreciated.

Best,

Roland

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