]> Norman, Thanks, I downloaded it and have started looking at it. I am not sure yet how much time I can dedicate to it but we shall see what happens. Thank you, Eric --- Norman Ramsey <nr@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote: > > I was wondaring if anyone is familiar with a > little > > language implementation that is suitable to be > > embedded in an ocaml program. I realize that it > > wouldn't be that hard to do, especially in ocaml, > but > > hate to duplicate work someone else has already > done. > > There aren't really that many requirements, just > the > > ability to look at passed in data structures a > return > > a result based off of them. > > > > > > At first I thought that ocaml itself would be the > best > > scriping langauge but I havn't figured out how to > link > > in code compiled with ocamlopt. In fact, I don't > think > > it is possible at the moment. > > We've written an implementation of Lua, version 2.5, > for Ocaml. > It's currently bundled with our nascent Quick C-- > compiler at > www.cminusminus.org. I'd like to split it out as a > separate > distribution, but we're rather short of help at the > moment and I'm > trying to get the papers written first. Anyway, as > far as I know > it's completely compatible with the C version, > although a few library > functions are missing. We've been fairly happy. > > If you want to play with it, download and build > Quick C--, then go to > the lua subdirectory and type `mk lua.ps'---that > will give you the > documentation for the API. The documentation for > the language can > probably be had from lua.org, but if they don't keep > manuals for old > versions, let me know and I'll put one in our CVS > archive. > > > Norman __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners