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

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> > > 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.

Well one could implement something such as :

dumpf "(int,string list) Hashtbl.t" v;

That would parse some type declaration and use appropriate printers.

Nicolas