FFI Report, CVS Id 1.11
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
chak at cse.unsw.edu.au
Thu Aug 30 12:02:50 EDT 2001
"Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote,
> * I have many small wording suggestions, but I'll just perform them
> directly.
Ok, fine.
> * I found 4.1 pretty confusing, and I'm an unusually well-informed
> reader.
> a) It was some while before I realised that the first entity
> production is
> only for foreign *import*. The foreign *export* entity
> production
> and its accompanying text is embedded in the middle of a vast
> swathe
> of foreign import stuff (both before and after!). Let's have
> sub-sections!
I agree, the structure of this material is not very clear
yet. I have added subsubsections now and a brief intro.
> b) Presumably an & import places constraints on the type? Ah! That's
> what
> you mean by "static address", and later "imported address".
> Easy to
> be confused here.
>
> Strong suggestion: give one example of each form in the
> description-list.
Ok. (Haven't done it yet, but added a todo.)
Cheers,
Manuel
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