[MLton] Welcome to Dan Wang

[Daniel C. Wang]

Oh, I forgot how CMCat worked... I know that somewhere hiding in the SML/NJ 
CM sources is a way of turn a sources.cm file into one big SML file which 
unlike CMCat actually handles all the crazy CM filtering and export stuff. I
basically want to port that to MLton so we can have all the normal CM 
semantics with scoping etc...

In particular I thought there was some code that took a portable graph 
description and dumped out one big SML file. This is at least my 
recollection last time I talked to Matthias Blume a few years back.

Well, I'm going to see if this is a weekend project or not, and feedback 
anything I discover to the list. As an SML user, I just want to use CM, and 
don't want to deal with having n-different compilation management systems.

Daniel C. Wang wrote:

> Matthew Fluet wrote:
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> {stuff deleted}
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>> On a lark, I've tried running cmcat on it's own .cm file (which entails
>> pulling in most of CM).  I get all the right source files, but of course
>> there are some primitive things that CM is assuming (and the SML/NJ
>> runtime provides), which aren't there when MLton is compiling the 
>> sources.
>> That would seem to be the point where a proxy for MLton or some
>> reorganization of the SML/NJ sources would be required.
> 
> 
> Basically, I'd like to port CMcat so it runs in MLton without relying on 
> SML/NJ. I'd like to believe this is a "weekend" project so will see how 
> far I get.
>