[MLton-user] Re: Wish for a standard sum type

Geoffrey Alan Washburn geoffw@cis.upenn.edu
Sun, 28 May 2006 14:39:23 -0400


Henry Cejtin wrote:

> I think that the first-letter-capitalized convension is WAY better and see
> enough examples in the standard basis library that I would go that way.

	Okay, fair enough.  I would argue that in that case it would make sense 
to lobby for renaming SOME and NONE.  However, I can only imagine that 
it was kept that way during the basis library standardization process 
because it was felt that it would break too much existing code.