Re: [Caml-list] Saving the OCaml interpreter state

[Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>]

On Thursday 12 April 2007 16:53, Harrison, John R wrote:
> | A new version of Poly ML also doesn't have the persistent storage
>
> system.
>
> Thanks; I didn't know that, and it comes as quite a surprise given
> Poly's history.
>
> Still, my question about OCaml stands. More specifically, I want to
> know whether the facility to save and restore state doesn't exist
> because
>
>  * None of the main OCaml developers particularly care about it
>
> or
>
>  * There are non-trivial technical problems implementing it.

Like Michael, I am also not going to answer your question (sorry!) but can I 
just say that, as a commercial developer, there would be significant 
incentive to write a killer IDE for OCaml if the current top-level was free 
for commercial use, e.g. part of the stdlib.

Having been playing with F# recently, I'm starting to appreciate some of the 
features afforded by a decent IDE. However, both OCaml and F# lack features 
found in the other and, more importantly, lack many features that could be 
hugely beneficial, particularly to users of the interactive systems.

Marshalling top-level state is one such feature.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
OCaml for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists