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Re: [Orgmode] org-babel and OCaml - help?
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Eric Schulte |
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Re: [Orgmode] org-babel and OCaml - help? |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:30:19 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Erik,
address@hidden (Erik L. Arneson) writes:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have just started playing around with org-babel, and it's really
> awesome! I've had great luck with emacs-lisp source blocks, and when I
> saw that OCaml source blocks were also supported, I started testing
> those out. Right away I ran into trouble, though. Observe the example
> below:
>
> #+tblname: example-table
> | 1 | 2 |
> | 2 | 3 |
> | 3 | 5 |
> | 4 | 6 |
>
> #+source: ocaml-length
> #+begin_src ocaml :var table=example-table
> List.length table
> #+end_src
>
> #+results: ocaml-length
> : Characters 14-15:
> : let table = ((1 2) (2 3) (3 5) (4 6));
> : ^
> : Error: This expression is not a function; it cannot be applied
>
> #+results: ocaml-length
>
> It looks as though the 'table' variable is being passed as Lisp code
> instead of OCaml. Is there something that my setup is missing, or does
> the OCaml code perhaps need more help? Maybe I did something wrong?
>
Nope you diagnosed the problem exactly, this isn't an issue with your
setup, but rather with the current babel<->ocaml integration. The
language specific interaction functionality tends to evolve by need, and
I don't think many people have been banging on ocaml through Babel up to
this point.
I've just pushed up a commit with teaches Babel how to feed tables to
ocaml, so your example above re-written as below should now work.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+tblname: example-table
| 1 |
| 2 |
| 3 |
| 4 |
#+source: ocaml-length
#+begin_src ocaml :var table=example-table
Array.length table;;
#+end_src
#+results: ocaml-length
: 4
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> (I'd love to work on fixing up the OCaml interface, if that's needed.)
I'd love to have your help! The relevant code is located in
org/lisp/ob-ocaml.el, you can see in the most recent commit the changes
that I've just made for integrating table handling into this file.
You'll notice by comparing ob-ocaml to some of the more mature code
files like ob-R, ob-python, ob-ruby that there are many areas in which
ob-ocaml could grow in functionality.
Cheers -- Eric