[MLton] cvs commit: spaces in mlb imported file names
Stephen Weeks
MLton@mlton.org
Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:10:59 -0700
> Note that the MLB lexer has a fairly limited regexp for filenames.
> Filenames must be composed of alpha-num characters or "-" or "_".
It would be good to document this in the user guide, as well as the
support of quoted strings.
> Also, considering that this is SML, I'm tempted to use SML style
> strings, which makes it easy for a user to understand what they are
> writing down, although it makes writing Win32 filenames a bit
> verbose.
I don't understand the issue here. Do you mean that filename strings
don't have the same syntax as SML strings? I agree that would be
bad. Or are you referring to the mlton -stop f output?