[Sml-implementers] Fwd: Sml-implementers digest, Vol 1 #236 - 4 msgs

[David M. <db...@cs...>]

I'm forwarding this digest, edited to remove spam.  The items are  
probably
redundant for most of us though.

Dave

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> Date: October 28, 2005 12:53:04 AM CDT
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> Today's Topics:
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>    2. new mailing list (Matthias Blume)
>    3. Re: [MLton] mutable fields [Re: [Smlnj-dev-list] Evolving  
> SML] (Henry Cejtin)
>    4. Re: [Sml-basis-discuss] new mailing list (Dave Berry)
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> From: Matthias Blume <bl...@tt...>
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:45:07 -0500
> To: Peter Sestoft <se...@di...>,
>     John Reppy <jh...@cs...>, sml...@li...,
>     po...@po..., sml...@li...,
>     Martin Elsman <ma...@it...>, Robert Harper <rw...@cs...>,
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>     sml...@cs..., Nick Benton  
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> Subject: [Sml-implementers] new mailing list
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> We have created a new mailing list for the discussion of
> the evolution of SML.  The address of the mailing list is:
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> From: Henry Cejtin <hen...@sb...>
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:26:05 -0500
> Subject: [Sml-implementers] Re: [MLton] mutable fields [Re: [Smlnj- 
> dev-list] Evolving SML]
>
> I always find it really inelegant that ML has both refs and arrays  
> instead of
> just making one use a vector of refs.  I am all in favor of having  
> compilers
> optimize away cases where the refs are not used in a first-class  
> way, but it
> seems to me like a real language wart.  Not only that, but it makes  
> certain
> things quite painful which are easy to do in C (like being able to  
> take the
> address of an array element and pass it around to procedures that  
> are going
> to mutate that slot).
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:53:33 +0100
> To: Matthias Blume <bl...@tt...>,John Reppy <jh...@cs...>,
>  SML implementers <sml...@li...>
> From: Dave Berry <da...@be...>
> Subject: [Sml-implementers] Re: [Sml-basis-discuss] new mailing list
>
> Does this imply that we regard the SML implementers list as dead?   
> If so,
> I'll unsubscribe from it.
>
> Dave.
>
>
> At 22:45 26/10/2005, Matthias Blume wrote:
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>> We have created a new mailing list for the discussion of
>> the evolution of SML.  The address of the mailing list is:
>>
>>     sml...@ma...
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>> Information about the list, including an interface to subscribe,
>> can be found at:
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>>     http://mailman.cs.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/sml-evolution
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>> There is also an email-based interface for users of the list;
>> you can get info about using it by sending a message
>> with just the word `help' as subject or in the body, to:
>>
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>> The list is closed, i.e., only subscribers can post messages.  If you
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>> The administrators are:
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>>     David MacQueen (db...@cs...)
>>     John Reppy     (jh...@cs...)
>>     Matthias Blume (bl...@tt...)
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Matthias Blume
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