bad error message

Henry Cejtin henry@sourcelight.com
Wed, 7 Nov 2001 23:59:41 -0600 

I had a typo in a string and instead of a
    \t
I had
    \5
The error message from MLton was `unclosed string'.

The error is identical to what SML 110.9.1 produces (no surprise).

I  looked at ml.lex, but couldn't figure out how it is getting to that error.