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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Generating coinductive elements

Not sure if it useful for you but you can actually convert a
string/function/file into an ocaml phrase and execute it from within
a program, for example:

[jrrk100@angcatlnxsrv10 v2abc]$ ocaml
	Objective Caml version 3.12.0

# Toploop.execute_phrase true Format.err_formatter
((!Toploop.parse_toplevel_phrase) (Lexing.from_string "355./.113.;;"));;
- : float = 3.14159292035398252
- : bool = true
# 
[jrrk100@angcatlnxsrv10 v2abc]$ 

I demonstrate it from within the toplevel interpreter but there is nothing to
stop you compiling with the Toploop library into an executable. This works with
bytecode, I have not tried it with ocamlnat(the native top-level)