Re: [Caml-list] How to refactor a large Ocaml program

["Jim Miller" <gordon.j.miller@gmail.com>]

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This is where I think I enjoy the test driven design that I've followed over
the past few years (I guess the agile folks have taken it as their own).  I
don't use any development tools for any language (java or Ocaml) and depend
on the compiler.

(I also take refactoring to mean that you're changing the design of a piece
of software that's resident behind a module or class interface.)

I then start refactoring making sure that I'm running the tests at almost
every compile to make sure that I didn't break something.  I do everything
from clean compiles (Ocaml's compiler is nice and fast) so that the compiler
will tell me everywhere that a function is used.

This has worked for me but I will also say that I pay very strong attention
to module interdependencies (Large Scale C++ Software Design by John Lakos
makes some great arguments that directly apply to Ocaml as well) so I'm able
to track my dependencies pretty easily.

Good luck

On 12/13/06, Mattias Waldau <mattias.waldau@abc.se> wrote:
>
> I have a large ocaml program and I need to make major changes.
>
> After using C# with ReSharper in Visual Studio I am bit spoiled :-)
> Having a reliable "Find Usage" feature in the browser is really useful
> when you start tearing apart a program. It is really nice to be able to
> go to the definition of a function directly, and find all locations it
> is used.
>
> However, when I go back to Ocamlm, Emacs and Otags and -dtypes doesn't
> give a lot of help except the types.
>
> For example Emacs "Find-tag" on Std.left, which find the following
> functions:
>
> left, margin_left,......
>
> Do anyone know about better ways of doing this?
>
> -- Mattias
>
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