[MLton] Re: PackWord to/from nonsense

[Matthew Fluet]

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Wesley W. Terpstra <wesley at terpstra.ca>wrote:
>> I really liked Vesa's suggestion of {to/from}Fixed for the INTEGER
>> signature.
>
> Could we maybe get these {to/from}Fixed in a MLton.IntX structure?

Adding a MLTON_INTEGER signature and MLton.Int<N> structures (and 
MLton.Position, MLton.FixedInt, MLton.LargeInt structures?) would be 
reasonable.  We have MLton_REAL and MLTON_WORD signatures.

> And perhaps petition John Reppy to have them added to the basis.

I think that future revisions of the Basis Library are highly unlikely.