Scripted main in OCaml?

Question

How can I emulate this Python idiom in OCaml?

if __name__=="__main__":
   main()

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Answer 1

$ ocamlc -o scriptedmain -linkall str.cma scriptedmain.ml
$ ./scriptedmain
Main: The meaning of life is 42
$ ocamlc -o test -linkall str.cma scriptedmain.ml test.ml
$ ./test
Test: The meaning of life is 42

scriptedmain.ml:

let meaning_of_life : int = 42

let main () = print_endline ("Main: The meaning of life is " ^ string_of_int meaning_of_life)

let _ =
    let program = Sys.argv.(0)
    and re = Str.regexp "scriptedmain" in
        try let _ = Str.search_forward re program 0 in
            main ()
        with Not_found -> ()

test.ml:

let main () = print_endline ("Test: The meaning of life is " ^ string_of_int Scriptedmain.meaning_of_life)

let _ =
    let program = Sys.argv.(0)
    and re = Str.regexp "test" in
        try let _ = Str.search_forward re program 0 in
            main ()
        with Not_found -> ()

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