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From: ecwu61@castle.ed.ac.uk (R Renwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: SML
Message-ID: <10130@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 8 May 91 12:31:29 GMT
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	I don't know how many Archie owners out there have ever used the
port of sml available from Newcastle, but if anyone can solve the
following problem, I'd be most grateful.

	If we have a 3 tuple such as ("fred","jim","shiela") and we want
to get the 1st element then #1("fred","jim","shiela") returns "fred", #2
returns "jim" etc.  This works fine for the sml I use at uni but the
Archie port doesn't like it.  I can't remember the exact message it
gives, but it's something like "Expecting a Lab in  #1 <?> (%,%,%)"

	If anyone knows why this is, I'd really appreciate them telling
me.

Cheers,
	Rik