SML/NJ 110.68 NEWS

Standard ML of New Jersey
Version 110.68 NEWS
August 13, 2008

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### Summary:

### Details:

General:
  - first batch of changes moving FLINT transforms and computations out of front end to translate phase; improves type checking and type error messages for val declarations.
  - added build support for OpenBSD (not tested)
  - fixed Int64.fromString to use base-10

SML/NJ Library:
  - New library to support the reading and writing of JSON files.
  - Committed a major overhaul of the RegExp library. There is now a new engine that implements Ken Thompson's RE matching algorithm. The result type of the RE matches has also been simplified by removing an unecessary option type.
    NOTE: the new RE engine is not complete in that it does not yet support end marks.
  - Added additional operations to the FormatComb module

ml-lpt changes:
  - ml-ulex bug fix for corner case
  - documentation updates
  - bugs in the parsing of specifications were fixed
  - changes to be more compatable with MLton

Windows:
  - implemented timer-based profiling
  - completed implementation of SML Basis Library Windows structure.
  - added nlffi support (see README for info)
  - various fixes to installation process