PLEASE: no horrible HEAP_SUFFIX junk
Stephen Weeks
MLton@sourcelight.com
Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:39:14 -0700
> Please, get rid of that horrible HEAP_SUFFIX code in the mlton shell script.
> Note, it isn't used at all, thank god (the shell variable HEAP_SUFFIX is
> defined but not used) and it is incredibly ugly and stupid. Just delete
> everything from the definition of HEAP_SUFFIX through the commented out `fi'.
> It is so much nicer that way. If some goofy person wants to try to use
> SML/NJ to compile MLton on a non-Linux box, they are going to need to know
> all kinds of things. The ability to change the dumped heap suffix is the
> least of their worries. It isn't worth uglifying the MLton script, which
> doesn't even use SML/NJ, just in this odd case.
OKOK. It was in there because Dimock had requested it at some point.