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

[Nick B. <Nic...@po...>]

At 2005-03-14 18:18:07+0000, John Reppy writes:

>    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).

In Python:

>>> import ctypes
>>> msvcrt = ctypes.cdll.msvcrt
>>> msvcrt.printf('Hello, %s! The answer is %d.\n', 'World', 42)
Hello, World! The answer is 42.
32
>>>

I'm not really expecting SML to do as well as this, but it's something
to aim for.

Nick B