Re: [Sml-implementers] compilation management

[Dave B. <da...@ta...>]

At 08:54 20/09/2001, John H. Reppy wrote:
>I often want to [...] have multiple
>implementations of the same module in a directory (see conditional compilation
>below).  

That's an interesting point.

>Also, the language allows arbitrary-length structure names, whereas
>some operating systems impose tight restrictions on file-name lengths.

Do such OS's still exist?  The main one was MS/DOS, of course, but I don't
think many people still use that.  I don't know anything about PalmOS,
Epoch, etc; do they have tight limits?

Dave.