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From: Martin Jambon <martin_jambon@emailuser.net>
To: Dmitri Boulytchev <db@tepkom.ru>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] String representation of the expression: may camlp4 help?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:14:29 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508151302300.6638@droopy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43009DF2.8090101@tepkom.ru>

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Dmitri Boulytchev wrote:

>   Hello everybody,
>
>   I'm looking for the way to get string representation of the OCaml 
> expression
>   at compile-time to facilitate test writing. Consider an example:
>
>        let repr, value = WITH_REPR (1+2) in
>        Printf.printf "%s=%d" repr value
>
>   Here WITH_REPR is a meta-construction that returns ("1+2", 3) (generally
>   speaking WITH_REPR(c) whould return (string * type_of c)).
>
>   Is there some convinient way to do this? May camlp4 help?

Have a look at the pretty-printing functions that pr_o.ml 
provides (from your Camlp4 installation). You can probably hack your own 
(expr -> string) function if it does not already exist.


Martin

--
Martin Jambon, PhD
http://martin.jambon.free.fr


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2005-08-15 13:51 Dmitri Boulytchev
2005-08-15 20:14 ` Martin Jambon [this message]

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