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Re: Help needed with behaviour of SML

#908
From: Lal George
Date: Thu, 09 May 1991 08:17
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In article <KERS.91May2084808@cdollin.hpl.hp.com> 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
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Subject: Re: Help needed with behaviour of SML
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