Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel!vulcan.anu.edu.au!rjm From: rjm@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Robert J. McArthur) Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional Subject: Re: Help needed with behaviour of SML Message-ID: <1991May8.003016.5333@newshost.anu.edu.au> Date: 8 May 91 00:30:16 GMT References: <20644@ogicse.ogi.edu> <10144@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@newshost.anu.edu.au Organization: Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Lines: 21 In article <10144@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> db@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry) writes: > >Code development in ML is a big improvement over a batch language, even >with a raw environment. You can test any function interactively, and you >can redefine leaf functions easily. Redefining non-leaf functions isn't >as convenient if you're just presented with the raw language, but it's >fairly easy to write decent programming environments to do everything >automatically. Even a make system is a great help. A good environment >would just recompile and re-link the changed module, without recompiling >all intermediate modules (there is at least one firm developing such an >environment). > Are there any "nice" environments for ML development? Public domain? X based? Robert -- Robert McArthur Centre for Resource and Environment Studies Australian National University ACSNet rjm@arp.anu.oz.au ACT Australia 2601 Pegasus|PeaceNet|EcoNet peg:robert (06) 249 4760