Re: [Caml-list] expansion of #use?

[Kenichi Asai <asai@is.ocha.ac.jp>]

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I tried to implement it myself, using compiler-libs (based on OCaml
4.11.0-alpha1 that I happen to install recently):

https://github.com/kenichi-asai/remove-sharpuse

It can be installed via:

opam pin add remove-sharpuse https://github.com/kenichi-asai/remove-sharpuse.git

However, if I execute (with attached a.ml and b.ml):

$ remove-sharpuse -dsource b.ml
Fatal error: exception Invalid_argument("The ocamltoplevel.cma library from compiler-libs cannot be loaded inside the OCaml toplevel")

What I did is as follows:

- I copied topstart.ml from toplevel/topstart.ml and modified it so
  that it calls My_topmain.main() instead of Topmain.main().
- I copied my_topmain.ml from toplevel/topmain.ml and modified all the
  occurences of Toploop to My_toploop.
- I copied my_toploop.ml from toplevel/toploop.ml and modified
  execute_phrase so that it does not execute Ptop_def case.  That is,
  I inserted "if true then true else" at line 273:

https://github.com/kenichi-asai/remove-sharpuse/blob/4.11.0-alpha1/my_toploop.ml#L273

  so that Ptop_def case is ignored.

If I insert the "if true then true else" line manually into the OCaml
source and compile it via "make world", I can expand #use by passing
"-dsource" to the resulting ocaml.  Can I do the same using
compiler-libs without getting the above error?

Thank you in advance.

-- 
Kenichi Asai


On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 08:32:03PM +0900,
 Kenichi Asai wrote:

> Is there any way to expand the use of #use?  Suppose I have the
> following two files:
> 
> a.ml:
> let a = 3
> 
> b.ml:
> #use "a.ml";;
> print_int a
> 
> Given the file name b.ml, I want to obtain:
> 
> let a = 3 ;;
> print_int a
> 
> The -dsource option of ocaml almost does it, but it executes the
> program at the same time.  In the above program, it prints 3, too.
> 
> So far, I tweak into the OCaml implementation, turn off the execution
> in execute_phrase in toploop.ml, and re-compile whole the OCaml.  I
> wonder if I can do the same thing simpler than this, possibly using
> compiler libs?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> PS. I know I should not use #use from the first place.
> 
> -- 
> Kenichi Asai

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let a = 1 + 2

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let b = 5;;
#use "a.ml";;
let _ = print_int (a + b)