On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, David Matthews wrote:
Personally I don't have any requirements beyond what Poly/ML does
already. What "the man in the street" wants to see, though, is something
that looks and feels like "polymlc ..." just like "cc ...", although
that might sound a bit silly.
Well it wouldn't be hard to provide a slight variation of the top-level that
when it reached end-of-file it looked in the name-space for a variable called
"main", checked that it had the correct function type and then called
PolyML.export on it. If this would appeal to some current sceptics about
Poly/ML then I'm happy to do it.
Actually it's probably not much more than
polyml --use myprogram.ML --use export.ML
Where export.ML is
PolyML.export("polyml.o", main);
OS.Process.exit OS.Process.success: unit;
You get the idea. It is mostly about trivialities for people who know
Poly/ML sufficiently well.
Note that the majority of people out there are not even sceptics of
Poly/ML, because they have not even heard of it. Instead they are using
much worse systems that they are used to.
Makarius
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