"Vesa Karvonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Any chance that Alice ML might switch to the de facto standard (and
> unspecified, AFAIK) semantics of use?

Brief answer: no. The slightly longer answer is that the "de facto
standard" semantics heavily relies on certain implementation techniques
that are not used in Alice ML. It also is largely meaningless in the
presence of concurrency.

For an extensive answer, please see this posting, where I explain the
reasons for the semantics of 'use' and related features like 'eval':

http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/pipermail/alice-users/2007/000783.html

Cheers,
- Andreas


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