Re: [Caml-list] ignoring toplevel phrases?

[Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>]

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Just curious, why do you want this?

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Roland Zumkeller <
roland.zumkeller@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to modify the toplevel's behavior such that it silently
> ignores any re-definitions of already bound identifiers (without
> recompiling)? I would like to achieve the following:
>
> # let x = 0;;
> val x : int = 0
> # let x = 1;;
> # x;;
> - : int = 0
>
> The following code is supposed to replace all toplevel phrases by
> "();;" during parsing (just as an experiment, it renders the toplevel
> useless of course).
>
> let original = !Toploop.parse_toplevel_phrase;;
>
> Toploop.parse_toplevel_phrase :=
>  fun _ -> original (Lexing.from_string ("();;"));;
>
> After executing this, a non-terminating sequence is shown:
> - : unit = ()
> - : unit = ()
> - : unit = ()
> ...
>
> I'm probably not using the right hook. Any insight would be appreciated.
>
> Best,
>
> Roland
>
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