[MLton] Re: idea

[Daniel C. Wang]

The ELF format should allow embedding of arbitrary sections of data. So 
doing this on ELF based systems (e.g.. Linux) should be doable. It would 
be nice to factor out the code into a reusable library. SML/NJ could 
benefit from this idea too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format

Matthew Fluet wrote:
>
> It has been suggested before.  Ideally, there would be a simple way to 
> incorporate a resource fork into an executable, then open that 
> resource as a file to load the world.  Then one would simply need to 
> abstract the word loading code to the point where it was loading from 
> a file handle.
>
> I think the difficult part would be the fact that the process of 
> opening a resource from an executable (and adding a resource to an 
> executable) will probably be different on each platform.  I know that 
> Windows has such a mechanism, but I don't know of a corresponding 
> feature on Unix platforms.