From: "Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)" <ulf.wiger@ericsson.com>
To: Luca de Alfaro <luca@dealfaro.org>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml, a practical functional language?
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:34:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BC35A1.6030209@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28fa90930809011048l60d1fb7fmc31a11e3f69c3f92@mail.gmail.com>
Luca de Alfaro skrev:
> And where else can you find a debugger that can execute code
> (or give you the impression it does) backwards?
> This is invaluable when trying to find things like where an
> exception is thrown: you simply run the code until it exits
> throwing the exception, then you back off a few steps until
> you find what is throwing the exception and why.
FWIW, Omnis has had this since the early 90's.
http://www.omnis.net/products/studio/index.html?detail=whyomnis
(I think that's the successor of the Omnis 5 and 7 that I used
back then.)
I can certainly vouch for the amazing utility of such debugging.
It is priceless! I didn't know Ocaml could do that.
BR,
Ulf W
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-30 19:50 circ ular
2008-08-30 20:32 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2008-09-01 16:36 ` Peng Zang
2008-09-01 17:48 ` Luca de Alfaro
2008-09-01 18:34 ` Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB) [this message]
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