I HATE incestuous compilers

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:40:20 -0700


> YUCK: I have to go through this again?  THIS IS BAD.
> 
> Once  again,  with  the  2001-06-20  compiler I cannot compile the 2001-06-25
> (prototype for 2001-06-29) version of MLton.  This is  really  an  incredible
> pain.   I  repeat  my  previous  statement.   You  don't want things to be so
> incestuous that only version X of MLton (no other version  of  MLton  and  no
> other ML compiler) can compile version X of MLton.  This is really bad.

I agree. It's on the todo list for after this release.

But I'm still surprised.  Remaking world.mlton didn't work?