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OCaml extensible applications, run-time code generation
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| From: | Adam Brown <adam@f...> |
| Subject: | OCaml extensible applications, run-time code generation |
Hi, I'm not an OCaml user but we're examining the option of using OCaml to allow the users to extend our application with new classes they write themselves (all conforming to a common interface. The catch is that we would like to be able to execute the user's new code line-by-line. I read a post which talked about using the OCaml evaluator Toploop.runscript. This would appear to provide us with an acceptable solution. Is this the case, and if so does the executed script run in the application's environment, or can we access data structures in the script's environment. We are currently planning to write the application in C++ for performance reasons (heavy floating point calculations and memory usage) and we would be embedding the OCaml code. thanks, Adam _____________________________________________________________ Adam Brown mailto:adam@freestream.com.au Freestream - Engineering and scientific computing 17 Stanlake St Footscray http://www.freestream.com.au 3011, Melbourne, Phone: +61 3 9317 8471 Australia Fax: +61 3 9318 5069 ______________________________________________________________