just curious

[Stephen Weeks]

> For  random reasons I was looking at the .c file created in the self compile.
> (Actually this was using the 2001-03-21 version of MLton with the  2001-06-20
> basis  library to compile the 2001-06-20 version of MLton).  In the .c code I
> see strings being defined which are 258 characters long, almost all  of  them
> zero bytes.  What are these for?  ;

I bet they are all lex tables generated by mllex.  I can't wait until we can use
my new regexp library for the lexer so that

1. We don't have another language (the mllex input language)
2. We don't have all that wasted code space.
3. It's probably faster too.