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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