[MLton] mlb path maps ... and spaces

Vesa Karvonen vesa.a.j.k at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 10:05:24 PDT 2008


On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Wesley W. Terpstra <wesley at terpstra.ca> wrote:
> Could we change the semantics to be: cut first word up to first whitespace
> => that's the variable. Trim leading and trailing whitespace of the
> remainder => that's the path? It would require changing the "specification",
> but would be backwards compatible.

Sounds reasonable to me, but don't forget to trim leading whitespace
from the variable name.

It would probably be useful to allow comments in a mlb-path-map file.

-Vesa Karvonen



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