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  26 <h1>WishList</h1>
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  31 <div class="paragraph"><p>This page is mainly for recording recurring feature requests.  If you
  32 have a new feature request, you probably want to query interest on one
  33 of the <a href="Contact">mailing lists</a> first.</p></div>
  34 <div class="paragraph"><p>Please be aware of MLton&#8217;s policy on
  35 <a href="LanguageChanges">language changes</a>.  Nonetheless, we hope to provide
  36 support for some of the "immediate" <a href="SuccessorML">SuccessorML</a> proposals in a
  37 future release.</p></div>
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  41 <h2 id="_support_for_link_options_in_ml_basis_files">Support for link options in ML Basis files</h2>
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  43 <div class="paragraph"><p>Introduce a mechanism to specify link options in <a href="MLBasis">ML Basis</a>
  44 files.  For example, generalizing a bit, a ML Basis declaration of the
  45 form</p></div>
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  48 <pre>option "option"</pre>
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  50 <div class="paragraph"><p>could be introduced whose semantics would be the same (as closely as
  51 possible) as if the option string were specified on the compiler
  52 command line.</p></div>
  53 <div class="paragraph"><p>The main motivation for this is that a MLton library that would
  54 introduce bindings (through <a href="ForeignFunctionInterface">FFI</a>) to an
  55 external library could be packaged conveniently as a single MLB file.
  56 For example, to link with library <span class="monospaced">foo</span> the MLB file would simply
  57 contain:</p></div>
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  60 <pre>option "-link-opt -lfoo"</pre>
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  62 <div class="paragraph"><p>Similar feature requests have been discussed previously on the mailing lists:</p></div>
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  65 <p>
  66 <a href="http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2004-July/025553.html">http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2004-July/025553.html</a>
  67 </p>
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  70 <p>
  71 <a href="http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2005-January/026648.html">http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2005-January/026648.html</a>
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