the Word type

[Simon Marlow]

=20
> > OK, the question is whether Hugs should provide it with a full set
> > of instances, including Storable, and allow it as a foreign type.
>=20
> You'll be unsurprised to learn that I favour providing no ffi support
> for it at all.  No Storable instance, no ffi support.  (And I think
> GHC should do likewise.)
>=20
> For backward and GHC compatability reasons, I think that, for now, we
> should keep the other Word operations and instances and GreenCard can
> provide support for Word by marshalling it as Word32.

I'm happy for it to be removed from the libraries if that's what folk
would prefer.  It seems we already decided to leave it out of the FFI
for portability reasons, and we don't have any other particularly
compelling reasons to keep it in the libraries.

Cheers,
	Simon