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The Future of Standard ML (2013) [pdf]

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Re: The Future of Standard ML (2013) [pdf]

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Post by jez » Sat, Jul 16, 2016, 3:30 AM UTC

throwaway000002 wrote: post #42

Can someone provide me with references for a succinct, lucid introduction to the ML module system and what problems it solves, and what shortcomings is has that are (partially?-)resolved by later variants?

Danny Gratzer wrote about this a while back:

http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/posts/2015-01-08-modules.html

Re: The Future of Standard ML (2013) [pdf]

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Post by 99999 » Sat, Jul 16, 2016, 11:47 PM UTC

It would be nice if the author provided some actual evidence for sweeping claims like "modules are far better than objects" and "the world is converging on ML as the language of choice". If there really is evidence, that would be great to hear about. If there isn't then these statements seem a bit self-serving.

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