Interactive SML use from Emacs, a question of approach

Hi,

A while back the guys on the Racket list shared two worldviews for
doing interactive development (context was sharing the existence of
them and I won't cite or claim anything more than that :)):

1. Interactively send code to a REPL. Let the environment grow and
evolve. Restart the interpreter as needed.

2. Start a fresh REPL every time code is evaluated so that the
entirety of the system state is known and predictable.

I'm kind of having two minds about this. #2 is more precise and
predictable, which is great. #1 is just more agile though.

When I set up OCaml mode (tuareg), I did it like #2 and it worked
fine. Now I'm setting up SML mode, and I'm curious how other people do
their real development workflow in regards to REPL and development
management.

Best wishes,

-- 
Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE
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