MLton 20180207

# SMLNJLibrary

The SML/NJ Library is a collection of libraries that are distributed with SML/NJ. Due to differences between SML/NJ and MLton, these libraries will not work out-of-the box with MLton.

As of 20180119, MLton includes a port of the SML/NJ Library synchronized with SML/NJ version 110.82.

## Usage

- You can import a sub-library of the SML/NJ Library into an MLB file with:

  MLB file | Description
  --- | ---
  $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/Util/smlnj-lib.mlb | Various utility modules, included collections, simple formating, …
  $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/Controls/controls-lib.mlb | A library for managing control flags in an application.
  $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/HashCons/hash-cons-lib.mlb | Support for implementing hash-consed data structures.
  $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/HTML/html-lib.mlb | HTML 3.2 parsing and pretty-printing library.
  $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/HTML4/html4-lib.mlb | HTML 4.01 parsing and pretty-printing library.
  $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/INet/inet-lib.mlb | Networking utilities; supported on both Unix and Windows systems.
  $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/JSON/json-lib.mlb | JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) reading and writing library.
  $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/PP/pp-lib.mlb | Pretty-printing library.
  $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/Reactive/reactive-lib.mlb | Reactive scripting library.
  $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/RegExp/regexp-lib.mlb | Regular expression library.
  $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/SExp/sexp-lib.mlb | S-expression library.
  $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/Unix/unix-lib.mlb | Utilities for Unix-based operating systems.
  $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/XML/xml-lib.mlb | XML library.

- If you are porting a project from SML/NJ’s CompilationManager to MLton’s ML Basis system using cm2mlb, note that the following maps are included by default:

      # SMLNJ Library
      $SMLNJ-LIB                              $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib
      $smlnj-lib.cm                           $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/Util
      $controls-lib.cm                        $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/Controls
      $hash-cons-lib.cm                       $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/HashCons
      $html-lib.cm                            $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/HTML
      $html4-lib.cm                           $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/HTML4
      $inet-lib.cm                            $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/INet
      $json-lib.cm                            $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/JSON
      $pp-lib.cm                              $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/PP
      $reactive-lib.cm                        $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/Reactive
      $regexp-lib.cm                          $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/RegExp
      $sexp-lib.cm                            $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/SExp
      $unix-lib.cm                            $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/Unix
      $xml-lib.cm                             $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/XML

  This will automatically convert a $/smlnj-lib.cm import in an input .cm file into a $(SML_LIB)/smlnj-lib/Util/smlnj-lib.mlb import in the output .mlb file.

## Details

The following changes were made to the SML/NJ Library, in addition to deriving the .mlb files from the .cm files:

- HTML4/pp-init.sml (added): Implements structure PrettyPrint using the SML/NJ PP Library. This implementation is taken from the SML/NJ compiler source, since the SML/NJ HTML4 Library used the structure PrettyPrint provided by the SML/NJ compiler itself.

- Util/base64.sml (modified): Rewrote use of Unsafe.CharVector.create and Unsafe.CharVector.update; MLton assumes that vectors are immutable.

- Util/engine.mlton.sml (added, not exported): Implements structure Engine, providing time-limited, resumable computations using MLtonThread, MLtonSignal, and MLtonItimer.

- Util/graph-scc-fn.sml (modified): Rewrote use of where structure specification.

- Util/redblack-map-fn.sml (modified): Rewrote use of where structure specification.

- Util/redblack-set-fn.sml (modified): Rewrote use of where structure specification.

- Util/time-limit.mlb (added): Exports structure TimeLimit, which is not exported by smlnj-lib.mlb. Since MLton is very conservative in the presence of threads and signals, program performance may be adversely affected by unnecessarily including structure TimeLimit.

- Util/time-limit.mlton.sml (added): Implements structure TimeLimit using structure Engine. The SML/NJ implementation of structure TimeLimit uses SML/NJ’s first-class continuations, signals, and interval timer.

## Patch

- smlnj-lib.patch