Hi John,

You might want to take a look at MetaOCaml.  Instead of strings it uses
"Brackets" (written .<...>.) and uses ".!" for "eval".  Here's a simple
interactive session:

# let a = .< 1 + 2 >.;;
val a : int code = .<(1 + 2)>.
# let b = .< .~a + .~ a >.;;
val b : int code = .<((1 + 2) + (1 + 2))>.
# let c = .! a;;
val c : int = 3
# let d = .! b;;
val d : int = 6

Notice that the also type checks what goes inside the brackets (it doesn't
just say "code", it says "int code").

Walid.

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, John Goerzen wrote:

|Hello,
|
|I am moving from Python to OCaml and one of the things I miss is
|Python's eval() call.  It takes a string representing a bit of Python
|source code, evaluates it, and returns the result.  I would like to be
|able to do similar things with OCaml.
|
|I have observed that /usr/bin/ocaml, the interactive top-level, is
|itself written in OCaml, which suggests that this should be possible.
|Although I have tried to study the source for this, it seems extremely
|complex and I can't figure out a way to do the simple evaluation
|described above.
|
|Can anyone help me out here?
|
|Thanks,
|John
|
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