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Abstract Value Constructors: Symbolic Constants for Standard ML

Author
Aitken, William; Reppy, John H.
Abstract
Standard ML (SML) has been used to implement a wide variety of large systems, such as compilers, theorem provers, graphics libraries and even operating systems. While SML provides a convenient, high-level notation for programming large applications, it does have certain deficiencies. One such deficiency is the lack of a general mechanism for assigning symbolic names to constant values. In this paper, we present a simple extension of SML that corrects this deficiency in a way that fits naturally with the semantics of SML. Our proposal is a generalization of SML's datatype constructors: we introduce constants that generalize nullary datatype constructors (like nil), and
Date Issued
1992-06Publisher
Cornell University
Subject
computer science; technical report
Previously Published As
http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cs/TR92-1290
Type
technical report