ecwu61@castle.ed.ac.uk (R Renwick) (05/08/91)
I don't know how many Archie owners out there have ever used the
port of sml available from Newcastle, but if anyone can solve the
following problem, I'd be most grateful.
If we have a 3 tuple such as ("fred","jim","shiela") and we want
to get the 1st element then #1("fred","jim","shiela") returns "fred", #2
returns "jim" etc. This works fine for the sml I use at uni but the
Archie port doesn't like it. I can't remember the exact message it
gives, but it's something like "Expecting a Lab in #1 <?> (%,%,%)"
If anyone knows why this is, I'd really appreciate them telling
me.
Cheers,
Rikas@prg.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens) (05/12/91)
Rik,
in an earlier posting mentions trouble he's being having with
the #<some-number> tuple field accessors in his copy of Edinburgh
SML.
I've tried the same thing on my (master) copy of the port and it works
just fine. The problem - presumably - must be corruption somewhere down
the line. Does anyone else have this problem - is the version on the
newcastle info server corrupt? Let me know so I can send a new copy to
newcastle if this is the case.
Andrew Stevens
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