[polyml] Re: [MLton] type variable lexical syntax

2013-04-22 Thread Andreas Rossberg
On Apr 22, 2013, at 03:31 , Michael Norrish michael.norr...@nicta.com.au wrote: Is the following really supposed to be acceptable? Both Poly/ML and mlton accept it without complaining: datatype '+ = C | D; (Moscow ML rejects it. mlton and Poly/ML treat it as the declaration of a

[polyml] Re: [MLton] type variable lexical syntax

2013-04-22 Thread Michael Norrish
On 22/04/13 4:29 PM, Andreas Rossberg wrote: On Apr 22, 2013, at 03:31 , Michael Norrish michael.norr...@nicta.com.au wrote: Is the following really supposed to be acceptable? Both Poly/ML and mlton accept it without complaining: datatype '+ = C | D; (Moscow ML rejects it. mlton and