How do I install a working version of Standard ML on Mac?

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ordinary picture ordinary · Sep 26, 2013 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

I'm using Mac OSX 10.7.5 and I can't seem to get download a working Standard ML compiler with a REPL available. Is this supposed to be so difficult? Is there a best ML that I should be downloading. I've tried SML/NJ and MLton to no avail.

Answer

Tai picture Tai · Jan 14, 2018

A Mac user can also use

$ brew install smlnj

Add path similar to /usr/local/Cellar/smlnj/110.82/libexec/bin to your .bash_profile.

$ source ~/.bash_profile

See this article for more information.

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