Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!newross!hart.Princeton.EDU!george From: george@hart.Princeton.EDU (Lal George) Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional Subject: Re: Help needed with behaviour of SML Message-ID: <1991May9.081703.3180@newross.Princeton.EDU> Date: 9 May 91 08:17:03 GMT References: <20644@ogicse.ogi.edu> Sender: news@newross.Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University, Dept. of Computer Science Lines: 16 In article kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) writes: >Here's another one. SML is an interactive incremental development language. >This means that when you find an error in a function definition, all you need >to do is to redefine the function and .... > >Funny, this useful feature of interactive langauges seems to have gone wrong. >I'll just have to load all the code I've compiled since then. I wonder what >modules that covers? When a module is modified, all the modules that depend on the changes need not be recompiled, if the program is built up using a set of functor applications. This should be the preferred organization when the program becomes large. -- Lal