On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 08:07:46PM -0000, cultural_sublimation wrote:
> Fellow Camels,
>
> How does one handle conditional compilation in OCaml? I want certain
> pieces of debugging code to be included only if a certain environment
> variable is set. This sort of thing is really easy to do in the C
> preprocessor with #ifdefs.
>
> And yes, I know I can use cpp also with OCaml, but I was wondering
> if there was a more "bactrian" way of doing this.
>
> Thanks,
> C.S.
>
is using `Sys.getenv' to simple minded and out of the
question? this is not conditional compilation, sure, but if
you use a reasonable "unprobable" name
("MYPROGRAM_DEBUGGING_OUTPUT" ...) for the environment
variable, it would do the job, essentially.
joerg
