From: Kaustuv Chaudhuri <kaustuv.chaudhuri@gmail.com>
To: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Inspect and dump values on the OCaml heap
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:09:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n2tf02e7f931004141909rce52bc29i29786b88c8ba8689@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FB04EDC-37F4-4336-A435-13ACF038051D@gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Kaspar Rohrer <kaspar.rohrer@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
Implementing dumpers seems like a teething procedure for
OCaml hackers. Here's my own attempt from a couple of years ago.
It handles cycles, renders SVGs (via Graphviz), and can accept
data structure "descriptions" to produce better names for the
internal nodes. It is almost 100% OCaml.
http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~kaustuv/misc/ocaml_show.html
I am convinced that such things have *no* usefulness. If you
are trying to debug your data structure, state its global
invariants, prove (at whatever level of formality you are most
comfortable with) that all API functions preserve the invariants,
and use the module system to hide functions that do not
preserve them. You will be done faster than trying to make
sense of graphs and your code will be better.
-- Kaustuv
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-15 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-14 15:02 Kaspar Rohrer
2010-04-14 22:45 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2010-04-14 23:23 ` Kaspar Rohrer
2010-04-15 0:40 ` Martin Jambon
2010-04-15 5:19 ` rixed
2010-04-15 2:09 ` Kaustuv Chaudhuri [this message]
2010-04-15 5:31 ` rixed
2010-04-15 5:42 ` Martin Jambon
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