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This page is mainly for recording recurring feature requests.  If you have a new feature request, you probably want to query interest on one of the <a href="Contact">mailing lists</a> first. <p>
Please be aware of MLton's policy on  <a href="LanguageChanges">language changes</a>.  Nonetheless, we hope to provide support for some of the "immediate" <a href="SuccessorML">SuccessorML</a> proposals in a future release. 
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<h2 id="head-34cdeb724870bb2dcef53080b67088eff2838e0c">Support for link options in ML Basis files</h2>
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Introduce a mechanism to specify link options in <a href="MLBasis">ML Basis</a> files.  For example, generalizing a bit, a ML Basis declaration of the form 
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<pre>option "option"
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could be introduced whose semantics would be the same (as closely as possible) as if the option string were specified on the compiler command line. 
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The main motivation for this is that a MLton library that would introduce bindings (through <a href="ForeignFunctionInterface">FFI</a>) to an external library could be packaged conveniently as a single MLB file.  For example, to link with library <tt>foo</tt> the MLB file would simply contain: 
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<pre>option "-link-opt -lfoo"
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Similar feature requests have been discussed previously on the mailing lists: 
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 <a class="external" href="http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2004-July/025553.html"><img src="moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11">http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2004-July/025553.html</a> 
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 <a class="external" href="http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2005-January/026648.html"><img src="moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11">http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2005-January/026648.html</a> 
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Last edited on 2007-07-08 22:53:40 by <span title="c-71-57-91-146.hsd1.il.comcast.net"><a href="MatthewFluet">MatthewFluet</a></span>.
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