These are code modules for the functional programming language SML/NJ that I am working on to help increase the amount of useful SML code there is in the world. While it's a great language, the number of third-party modules remains quite small. What this means is that someone developing an application with it has to start from scratch. Languages like C, Perl, and PHP have a huge advantage because of their libraries. I'd like to help do the same for SML.

Hopefully, the number of these small projects will grow and inspire others to put up their own repositories. I'm in the initial stages of working with a friend on developing a SML packaging system in a style similar to Perl's CPAN but it's still entirely too early to say anything detailed about it.

Unless otherwise noted, these projects are licensed under a BSD license in order to promote use of the code and of SML in general.

• HTTP - Latest release: 0.1 (August 23, 2004)
  A structure for working with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. At the moment, this only includes fetching files from a provided URL. A sample implementation of a wget-like program is provided. This structure requires URI, found below.
• INI - Latest release: 1.0 (October 8, 2004)
  A structure for parsing and creating the popular Windows-style INI file (which also happen to be found in Samba and PHP). The tarball contains documentation and a specification for the subset of INI syntax that this structure can handle. Some simple examples are included.
• URI - Latest release: 1.1 (September 15, 2004)
  A URI parsing and manipulating structure. The tarball contains documentation and examples on how to use this. I should get a more proper page up in the future, but this really is a very simple chunk of code and doesn't warrant a complex site.

Links to related SML projects:

• gophernet.org
• zoogie