SML/NJ HOME:

http://www.smlnj.org/index.html

FILES:

http://smlnj.cs.uchicago.edu/dist/working/110.73/

Summary:

SML/NJ 110.73 provides a number of new library features, including a new library for working with HTML 4, as well as many bug fixes.

Details:

CM:

• Added boolean literals (true and false) to the conditional-expression syntax in CM. Thus, you can write
  

  #if true structure Foo #endif

  in a CM file. This change is meant to make it easier to use autoconf to configure the build process of an SML application.

ML-Yacc:

• Fixed ml-yacc examples to respect the changed signatures with respect to TextIO.inputLine.

SML/NJ Library:

• Added findExe function to PathUtil module.
• Modified the implementation of GetOpt.usageInfo so that if the help string has embedded newlines, then the extra lines are properly indented.
• Changed the interface of JSONStreamParser to support both parsing files and TextIO.instreams.
• Added HTML4 library.
• Fixed bug in hashed cons library (bug #55).
• Added array iterators to DynamicArray module.

Concurrent ML:

• The paths used to specify the CML versions of libraries in a CM file have been rationalized (bug #68)

  $cml/basis.cm -- the CML version of $/basis.cm $cml/cml.cm -- core CML features $cml/cml-lib.cm -- CML library code $cml/trace-cml.cm -- TraceCML library for debugging $cml/smlnj-lib.cm -- CML version of the $/smlnj-lib.cm library $cml/inet-lib.cm -- CML version of the $/inet-lib.cm library $cml/unix-lib.cm -- CML version of the $/unix-lib.cm library

  Note that the old naming scheme is still supported, but may be removed in some future version.
• Added Barriers module to CML.
• Fixed the Win32 socket and polling implementation to work correctly with CML. Signature of poll was wrong and didn't handle sockets at all.

MLRISC:

• Added support for the RTDSC and RTDSCP instructions to the amd64 code generator.

Bugs:

Here is a list of tracked bugs fixed by this release, please see the bug tracker for more details.

38	CM bug in calling ML-Lex/Yacc in Windows
39	SML/NJ doesn't build on NetBSD out of the box
49	Slight syntactic difference between ml-lex and ml-ulex in backward compatibility mode
50	CM can't invoke ml-yacc or ml-lex on Windows
55	HashCons equality test doesn't work because tags aren't incremented
56	CM still can't invoke ml-yacc on Windows
59	Non-blocking socket functions broken
61	Problem with quoting, CM, and Windows
63	Comments not lexed correctly in mlyacc grammar files
67	Installation fails on mac OSX (10.7, Lion)
68	CM anchors for CML need rationalization
69	String.scan function missing from basis library
70	confusing error message when trying to install on 64-bit Linux without 32-bit support

The following unnumbered bugs were also fixed:

• Changed the Win32 implementation of validArc to support directories with extended characters (umlauts, etc.).
• Fixed Real.toString and Real.fmt to include sign for negative zero.
• Fixed the bug with Win32 calls to OS.Process.system not quoting the string.