Re: args when running from the command line

On Jul 8, 2008, at 12:20 AM, brian wrote:

> It looks like you can't get command line args when running sml thusly;
>
>  sml files.sml arg1 arg2 ...
>

Actually, you can:

$ cat foo.sml
let val l = CommandLine.arguments ()
in app (fn x => (print x; print "\n")) l;
    OS.Process.exit OS.Process.success : unit
end
$ sml foo.sml a b c d e
Standard ML of New Jersey v110.67 [built: Mon Jul  7 11:15:34 2008]
[opening foo.sml]
[autoloading]
[library $SMLNJ-BASIS/basis.cm is stable]
[autoloading done]
a
b
c
d
e
$

>
> Is there anyway, maybe using some os function to exit instead of
> entering the repl ?

See the code snippet above.  The function you are looking for is  
OS.Process.exit.

Hope this helps...
Matthias


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