[MLton] cvs commit: spaces in mlb imported file names

Stephen Weeks MLton@mlton.org
Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:10:59 -0700


> Note that the MLB lexer has a fairly limited regexp for filenames.
> Filenames must be composed of alpha-num characters or "-" or "_".

It would be good to document this in the user guide, as well as the
support of quoted strings.

> Also, considering that this is SML, I'm tempted to use SML style
> strings, which makes it easy for a user to understand what they are
> writing down, although it makes writing Win32 filenames a bit
> verbose.

I don't understand the issue here.  Do you mean that filename strings
don't have the same syntax as SML strings?  I agree that would be
bad.  Or are you referring to the mlton -stop f output?