[MLton] Re: [Smlnj-dev-list] Evolving SML

Peter Sestoft sestoft@dina.kvl.dk
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:18:16 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, John Reppy wrote:

> Here are a few ideas for short-term (and medium-term) features that
> I'd like to see:

> 	7. records with mutable fields.

Preferably this should be syntactic sugar for a records with ref
fields.  OCaml-style updatable records, while useful, would require a
redesign of equality because updates can create cycles...

Peter