Re: [Sml-implementers] SML IDE as language promotion

[John R. <jh...@cs...>]

I agree about the importance of libraries.  I think that there are two
issues that as a community we need to solve before we can hope to
have the same level of library support that Python and its ilk have.

   1) a portable way to specify build scripts. When I write a library for
     SML/NJ, I use CM, but there is no easy way to port my library to
     MLton, or Moscow ML, or the MLKit, or ...   Matthias Blume proposed
     a solution to this problem on this mailing list a year or two ago, 
but
     there was little or no response from other implementations.

   2) a protable and standard way to interface to C code.  I think that
     this needs to be a language extension that all implementations
     agree to support (something like the Haskell FFI specification).

	- John