[MLton] List comprehensions?

skaller skaller at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Jun 6 09:45:53 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 16:07 +0200, Andreas Rossberg wrote:
> "Wesley W. Terpstra" <wesley at terpstra.ca>:
> >
> > When/ How is SML revised? Will there someday be an SML0x which includes 
> > views (great syntax!) and the other corrections/improvements?
> 
> Nobody knows. There is no directed community effort and no formal process 
> whatsoever, only the sML Wiki and an SML Evolution meeting that took place 
> at last ICFP, without any concrete results. I guess I'm not the only one who 
> feels mildly depressed about this.

Don't be depressed, consider instead that the timing is not right.

Does someone have a model to make map, fold, zip, etc library
functions with a universal definition? Functorial (polyadic) ML ..
that would be worth standardising.


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John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
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