Toplevel: please add a primitive to compile a file test.ml as a module Test.

[vicuna]

Original bug ID: 5825
Reporter: hnrgrgr
Assigned to: meyer
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2015-12-11T18:21:15Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Fixed in version: 4.01.0+dev
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Duplicate of: #3121
Monitored by: @hcarty

Bug description

This bugs is a follow-up to a thread of the caml-list:

https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2012-11/msg00021 .html

While testing/debugging some code with the OCaml toplevel, one may want to "#load" a module while keeping access to functions hidden by a .mli

The primitive "#use" already allow this, but when loading multiple files the "module-as-namespace" paradigm is not usable.

Here is a small patch that introduces a new primitive: #mod_use "file.ml"
It behaves as '#use "file.ml"', but wrap the content of 'file.ml' in a module 'File'.

File attachments

• mod_use.patch

[vicuna]

Comment author: meyer

Patch looks good and applied, commit 13097 on trunk, thanks!

Documentation will still need updating so not closing it down yet.

[vicuna]

Comment author: meyer

Now the documentation also up to date in commit 13098.