ocaml pretty printer (code formatter)

Question

I am looking for a code formatter or pretty printer for ocaml. Something like gofmt for the go programming language. It should preferably preserve comments.

I am correcting hand-ins and some of the code is formatted in a way that makes it very hard to read.

Falsecard

Answer 1

if you don't care about comments, you can use camlp4:

camlp4 <file> -parser o -printer o > <new-file>

Or you can use external indenter tools, as ocp-indent.

Bargeboard

Actually, that seemed to preserve comments. Thank you! – Falsecard

You might also want to include the way to do with the revised syntax. I needed it for use with the Camlp4 lexer parser. – Capacitance

Answer 2

These days ocamlformat is recommended and well integrated into dune with dune fmt.

Globose