Re: [Caml-list] adding a scripting language to an ocaml program

[Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch>]

Thomas Fischbacher a écrit :
> 
> The last thing I remember is that Guillaume had contacted me about
> wanting to re-write it, but not much seems to have happened on that
> front so far.

Well, things have happened on this front so far. And a few people have 
the code that I've written. Unfortunately, for rather awkward reasons, I 
am not in a position to release it. But hope to be in the rather not 
distant future.

It's basically a rewrite. It works, but isn't fully featured yet. I 
believe memory management is done properly. There are also some C 
varargs functions in the Python API that have been properly binded with 
the libavr library (or something called like that). A (yet basic) syntax 
extension allows to write things like:

	module X = python module mypython module

It does introspection and dumps the OCaml code needed to access values 
of the module. I've been hitting type inference issues in Python for 
this. But there is some work (like shedskin) to capitalise in order to 
make the syntax extension more interesting when it comes to typing.

And there's a Debian package, also.

Do not hold your breath on this code, as a release might take a while.

But if someone is willing to carve out of shedskin the code needed to do 
type inference and bind it to OCaml, that would be a nice contribution 
to the syntax extension.

I do not have much time available on this one, and I currently have 
other interests. But if someone is interested in the code, please email 
me to see what is possible to do...

All the best,

Guillaume Yziquel.
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