Re: adding a scripting language to an ocaml program

[Michael Ekstrand <michael@elehack.net>]

On 07/03/2010 02:34 PM, Martin DeMello wrote:
> Has much work been done on adding a scripting language to an OCaml
> program? I googled about a bit, but no one seems to be even talking
> about this - for example, if I wanted to do something emacslike with a
> core in OCaml and (ideally) some sort of scheme as a scripting engine
> in place of elisp, would that be easily doable?

The authors of C-- have implemented a Lua engine in OCaml, with a good,
high-level, type-safe interface for embedding it.  Look for 'lua-ml'.
There is also an OCaml implementation of Scheme called 'ocs'; I do not
have experience with it, so I cannot speak to its API style.  Finally,
there are OCaml bindings to the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine.

So, it has been done, and ocs is probably closest to what you're looking
for.

- Michael