On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Martin Jambon wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Matt Gushee wrote:
>
>> I have developed a tool that generates a module using Camlp4, and I
>> would like to be able to test the output. The structure is fairly small
>> and simple, so it should be sufficient to verify that a generated module
>> is equivalent to a certain hand-coded module ... but is there a reliable
>> way to do that?
>
> My 2 cents:
>  camlp4o pa_yourextension.cmo pr_o.cmo input.ml > auto.ml
>  camlp4o manual.ml > manual2.ml

I meant reindenting:
    camlp4o pr_o.cmo manual.ml > manual2.ml

>  diff auto.ml manual2.ml
>
> Of course if you have a lot of automatic identifiers, that's not very 
> convenient. But at least you will get the same indentation if your 
> identifiers have the same length.
>
>
>> If it makes a difference, the output consists mainly of two values: a
>> data structure which is of an abstract type, and an object. The former
>> is implemented as follows:
>>
>>   type data = S of string | L of string list | D of t
>>   and t = {
>>     data : (string, data) Hashtbl.t;
>>     mutable locked : bool;
>>   }
>> 
>> and the latter is an immediate object, but it inherits from a class
>> defined in another module. The object is associated with two instances
>> of the above type, has public methods that get and set values, and may
>> contain one or more sub-objects similar to itself.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Matt Gushee
>> Englewood, CO, USA
>> 
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