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Hello.

Just out of curiosity, since the subject of my question seems completely out of the scope of this project, but have you any plan to take it further to an interactive shell (like sh, csh, zsh, fish etc.)?

Would be great to have a complete OCaml solution for UNIX-like shells.

Great work! Thanks!

I've been writing some scripts which share some common code in a separate module. When I edit the script itself and run it, the code is recompiled as expected. When I edit the separate module and run the script again, it is not recompiled and the old code runs instead. I was hoping it would magically notice that the separate module had changed and recompile, like traditional scripting languages would. (I'm trying to encourage people used to python to try this)

Error I get if I try to run an ocamlscript under a 5.1.0 ocaml switch.
It does not happen w/ earlier versions of ocaml.

Ocamlscript looks like it would be incredibly useful for a nixos user.

If ocamlscript is intended to eventually be built with dune, I could help out once that is done by adding a flake.nix to add an easy installation option (including spawning a shell that temporarily has the git master version of ocamlscript and cleans up & removes it once you are done).

Camlp4 is deprecated for a long time, Camlp5 as well. It makes sense either migrate to mehrir, or extension points for preprocessing and parsing capabilities.

See discussion about Camlp4, Camlp5, Ulex and modern OCaml here: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/camlp5-and-ocaml-4-08/3985

Also it makes sense to switch to Dune build system as well, plus adding a CI scripts.

for the no-merlin-errors to work I think ocamlscript.cmi/std.cmi must be installed.
nice to see this old project revived/advertised - it's great.

revision: I see ocamlscript.cmi now in for v3.0.0 ! leaving std.cmi