Re: [Caml-list] How useful do you find the OCaml debugger?

[Christophe Raffalli <Christophe.Raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>]

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I have use a lot the debuggers, but veru often without succes because:

- my program was to complex to debug it without backtracking
- backtracking often crashes (but it is hard to reproduce) and moreover 
is not usable when performing IO (at least the last time I used it)

If would be nice to have two ml functions (to use inside your code to 
debug):

allow_debugback (): backtraking is allowed after this function is 
executed (create the first fork for backtracking there). This function 
could recieve the maximum number of fork in argument instead of unit.

disallow_debugback (): no more backtracking possible (kills all the 
previous forks)

I think this is simple to implement and not very hard to use (for 
instance it is easy to put such a function in the treatment part of a 
parser to solve the IO problems).


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