MLWorks User Guide version 2.0 for UNIX/Linux

Contents

Copyright and Trademarks

1 - Using MLWorks interactively

1.1 - Introduction

1.2 - Starting up the MLWorks interactive environment

1.3 - Introducing the listener

1.4 - More on interacting with MLWorks

1.5 - Repeating and editing input

1.5.1 - Keyboard shortcuts

1.5.2 - The History menu

1.6 - Writing and reading source files

1.7 - Handling compilation errors

1.8 - Editing ML files

1.8.1 - Custom editors

1.9 - Examining ML values

1.10 - Searching for ML identifiers

1.11 - Tracking down unhandled exceptions

1.12 - The MLWorks start-up file

1.13 - Printing extra information in the listener

2 - Building Applications

2.1 - Introduction

2.1.1 - Different styles of application development

2.1.2 - Introducing the MLWorks project system

2.1.3 - Building a standalone version of your application

2.2 - Expressing source dependencies

2.3 - Basic use of the MLWorks project system

2.3.1 - Creating a project file

2.3.2 - Setting the project's required files

2.3.3 - Adding target source files

2.3.4 - Setting the object path and mode

2.3.5 - Compiling the target sources into object files

2.3.6 - Loading code into the environment

2.3.7 - Clearing the compilation message log

2.3.8 - Removing, recompiling, and reloading units

2.3.9 - Summary of the basic compile and load operations

2.4 - Further uses of the MLWorks project system

2.4.1 - Determining file dependencies

2.4.2 - Setting the library path

2.4.3 - Configurations

2.4.4 - Subprojects

2.5 - Delivering applications with MLWorks

2.6 - The MLWorks batch compiler

3 - Using the MLWorks Libraries

3.1 - Introduction

3.2 - The MLWorks libraries

3.3 - How the libraries are distributed

3.4 - Using the libraries in your applications

3.4.1 - Portability and the Standard ML Basis library

3.5 - Using the libraries in your applications: an example

3.5.1 - The application

3.5.2 - Requiring TextIO and String in the application sources

3.5.3 - Compiling and loading the application

3.5.4 - Delivering a standalone executable version of the application

4 - Examining Objects

4.1 - Introduction

4.2 - Examining values: the inspector

4.2.1 - Changing the graph layout

4.2.2 - Display controls

4.2.3 - Value and Type fields

4.3 - Examining the interactive context: the browser tools

4.3.1 - Inspecting values from the system browser

4.3.2 - Inspecting values from the context browser

4.4 - Examining and repeating listener input: the history tool

5 - Debugging

5.1 - Introduction

5.2 - Viewing files

5.3 - Step mode

5.4 - Adding breakpoints

5.5 - Interrupting an evaluation

5.6 - Local variables

5.7 - Tracing

6 - Profiling

6.1 - Introduction

6.2 - A note on compiling code for profiling

6.3 - Profilable entities

6.4 - The profile tool

6.4.1 - Controlling the layout of the profiler graph

7 - Using MLWorks in TTY Mode

7.1 - Introduction

7.2 - Starting MLWorks up in TTY mode

7.3 - Debugging in the TTY interface

7.4 - Inspecting values in the TTY interface

Index