Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Dumper in extlib?

[Richard J. <ri...@an...>]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:35:52PM +0100, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> > Anyone interested in this, http://merjis.com/developers/dumper or
> > similar functionality in extlib?  My particular implementation is pure
> > OCaml.  (You might want to read the "Notes" section of that page
> > first however)
> >
> > Rich.
> 
> Nice !
> Since it's not big, I don't think it needs a module of its own. Why not
> adding the to_string : 'a -> string or dump : 'a -> string value to the
> ExtLib Std module ?

Yes, good idea.  Since I don't have access to ocaml-lib CVS, do you
want to add it?  The function is only about a page of code.

I have a few ideas for extending it.  For example, it would be nice to
turn on/off list understanding (although the default for lists should
probably be "on").  Something like:

  dump ~list:false ...

If that were added, then one could also add detection and printing of
hash tables and other complex structures.  I'll get round to that
later however.

Rich.

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