On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:33:35AM -0400, Antony Courtney wrote: > I'm an experienced Haskell hacker trying OCaml for the first time. > > One thing I am desperately searching for but have been unable to find > is some direct runtime access to the string representation of > arbitrary OCaml values.
Note that OCaml doesn't carry very much information at runtime about what is represented in a value. However there are various generic printers around. Probably your best bet for a quick and dirty hack is to use the 'Std.dump' function in extlib (http://code.google.com/p/ocaml-extlib/). This can turn anything into a string, and tries to produce something which looks similar to an OCaml toplevel value. Documentation for Std.dump: http://ocaml-extlib.googlecode.com/svn/doc/apiref/Std.html If you want to go further than this and have OCaml write a pretty- printer for your types, then you'll want to look at one of the following projects (and probably others ...) http://www.ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html http://code.google.com/p/deriving/ http://tools.assembla.com/tywith/wiki Another alternative is to run your code in the OCaml toplevel. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
