Poly/ML December 2013

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Inspecting structures
by ramana.kumar＠gmail.com 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Is there a way to look at the contents (i.e. signature) of a structure without opening it? (I suppose you could just open it then call a lot of PolyML.Compiler.forgetXXX, but that's quite tedious) Also, is it possible to retrieve the long path of an identifier in scope? Something that will, for example, take the rev in scope and say that it came from List. Finally, what about searching for an identifier that would come into scope if you opened some structures?

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polyc and poly --script
by rene.neumann＠in.tum.de 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

Hi, two completely orthogonal questions/remarks for PolyML 5.5.1: 1.) When building PolyML with '--with-system-libffi' the '-lffi' part is missing in the linker line in polyc. 2.) Is it somehow possible to see if an ML file is run via 'poly --script' or as a standalone executable? Because for the one the logic has to be wrapped in 'fun main ()', and for the other it should not :). (Ie, what I want: if is_script then main() else () ) Thanks, Ren? -- Ren? Neumann Institut f?r Informatik (I7) Technische Universit?t M?nchen Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching b. M?nchen Tel: +49-89-289-17232 Office: MI 03.11.055

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[Fwd: Re: [polyml] Building Poly/ML on MacOS X 10.6]
by rda＠lemma-one.com 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

I wrote: > I am completely baffled. I thought I hada solved all my problems on > MacOS X > 10.6 and was just tidying up, when I had to recompile a 32 bit > version of > Poly/ML to test a tidied up make file. This failed because > PolyML.Compiler.printTypesWithStructureName no longer exists. The same > problem happened when i rebuild a 64 bit version. What has happened? but it was a false alarm: my make file was wrong for other reasons and the absence of PolyML.Compiler.printTypesWithStructureName was not relevant. No doubt there are good reasons why this variable has been withdrawn. Regards, Rob.

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Isabelle/ML IDE
by makarius＠sketis.net 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Dear friends of Poly/ML, or Standard ML in general, Isabelle2013-2 is now available from the usual mirror sites: Cambridge (UK) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/hvg/Isabelle/ Munich (Germany) http://isabelle.in.tum.de/ Sydney (Australia) http://mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/isabelle/ It is mainly an environment for interactive and automated theorem proving, but the integration of Isabelle/ML into the Prover IDE makes it suitable for general Standard ML development (potentially in teaching scenarios). After downloading / unpacking / running the main application of Isabelle/jEdit, the Documentation panel on the right-hand side gives quick access to Examples, notably src/HOL/ex/ML.thy for some Isabelle/ML basics. The manual on Isabelle/jEdit in the same panel provides further details on the IDE, which is based on the jEdit text editor. Makarius

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Incorrect floating point conversion
by fw＠deneb.enyo.de 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

I noticed this: Poly/ML 5.5.1 Development > val a = 0.99999999999999972244424384371086489409208297729492187;; val a = 1.0: real > val b = 0.999999999999999722444243843710864894092082977294921876;; val b = 1.0: real > a < b;; val it = false: bool > a > b;; val it = false: bool So both values are equal according to Poly/ML. But the correct conversion for the first one is (in hexadecimal floating point notation) 0x1.ffffffffffffdp-1, and for the second 0x1.ffffffffffffep-1, so the values should be different.

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excessive compile times?
by Michael.Norrish＠nicta.com.au 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

A minimally modified version of the file at https://raw.github.com/mn200/HOL/master/src/bool/boolScript.sml takes 83 seconds to be ?used? (using PolyML.use) into an interactive PolyML session. There are a great many files that need to be used before boolScript gets to work, but none of those files need any longer than 2seconds to be used, and the vast majority take less than a second. The "minimal modifications? turn the ``?`` syntax into valid SML, such that ``p /\ q`` turns into (Term [QUOTE ?p /\\ q?]) and turns `p /\ q` into [QUOTE ?p /\\ q?] We have a timer that starts when the script file actually begins to execute, and this reports that the execution time is less than a second, so it really does seem as if the compilation time is the issue. We have many other Script files in HOL4 that are at least this long, but they don?t have slow compilation times in the same way. Also, the much smaller (30 times by LoC) https://raw.github.com/mn200/HOL/master/src/1/ConseqConvScript.sml has the same prefix as boolScript, but compiles in less than a second. Is there anything obvious (and remediable) that boolScript is doing that might be causing this problem? FWIW, Moscow ML compiles this file as quickly as all the others in the system. Thanks, Michael ________________________________ The information in this e-mail may be confidential and subject to legal professional privilege and/or copyright. National ICT Australia Limited accepts no liability for any damage caused by this email or its attachments.

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Flexible records and overloading
by David.Matthews＠prolingua.co.uk 01 Dec '13

01 Dec '13

The ML standard is not specific about what the "program context" should be when disambiguating flexible records and overloading. Poly/ML uses as wide a context as possible but that can mean that a program that compiles with Poly/ML won't necessarily compile with other implementations. I've added a switch PolyML.Compiler.narrowOverloadFlexRecord that defaults to false. If set to true the compiler uses a much narrower context; essentially the val binding. I've looked at a few other implementations to see what they do. The most restrictive is Hamlet which corresponds to what Poly/ML now does with narrowOverloadFlexRecord set to true. It rejects let fun f x y = x + y in f 1.0 end; which SML/NJ (110.74) accepts. Neither accept let fun f {x, ...} = x in f {x=1} end; Mlton seems to use the whole program context as Poly/ML does. David

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Poly/ML December 2013