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have ocaml support the '-' option (for standard input) #2757

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vicuna opened this issue May 4, 2001 · 2 comments
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have ocaml support the '-' option (for standard input) #2757

vicuna opened this issue May 4, 2001 · 2 comments
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vicuna commented May 4, 2001

Original bug ID: 352
Reporter: administrator
Assigned to: @damiendoligez
Status: closed (set by @damiendoligez on 2011-12-30T16:29:41Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Fixed in version: 3.13.0+dev
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Related to: #5232

Bug description

Full_Name: Sven Luther
Version: 3.01
OS: debian GNU/linux
Submission from: lambda.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.90.63)

Note : this is a feature wish, i didn't find the 'priority' entry in the bug
fill form, so ...

Hello, ...

I wanted to run the labgltk examples from the lablgtk debian package, they are
on a read only directory, and some of them are compressed.

it is easy to run the uncompressed ones (lablgtk -labels file.ml), but not so
easy to run the compressed ones.

I thought it would be nice to be able to do as follows :

gunzip -c file.ml.gz | lablgtk -labels -

but ocaml clearly don't support this syntax yet.

I know about at least 2 workaround :

  1. under bash you cna do :

(gunzip -c testgtk.ml.gz; echo ";;") | lablgtk -labels

but this will scroll up the display, and is not so nice.

  1. you can also do :

gunzip -c testgtk.ml.gz | lablgtk -labels /dev/fd/0

but i don't think this is the nicest of solutions

  1. it could be possible also to patch toplevel/toploop.ml,changing :

< let filename = find_in_path !Config.load_path name in
< let ic = open_in_bin filename in

to :

let (filename, ic) =
  if name = "-" then
    (name, stdin)
  else
    let filename = find_in_path !Config.load_path name in
  (filename, open_in_bin_filename) in

or something such more appropriate.

Thanks to Nicolas GEORGE nicolas.george@ens.fr, for hinting me to those and
provide the (untested) patch.

What do you think of it ? Is this something that would be a nice addition to
ocaml, or is it not worth it, to difficult to do ?

Also you could link ocaml with zlib, so as to be able to read compressed files
directly, but i don't know if it is worth it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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vicuna commented Nov 13, 2002

Comment author: administrator

Looks good. To be implemented.

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vicuna commented Dec 30, 2011

Comment author: @damiendoligez

[speaking for the OCaml toplevel rather than labltk]
The "-" syntax is already used by this option:

  • Treat as a file name (even if it starts with `-')

So I have implemented it as a "-stdin" option.

Implemented in trunk (3.13).

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