[MLton] bug with packed representations

Henry Cejtin henry@sourcelight.com
Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:41:46 -0500


Doesn't it make more sense to use a different operation for actually changing
the value, and use cast only for re-interpretation of the bits?  I know  that
in  C the fact that the same term is used for both always struck me as a very
bad idea.