freeHaskellFunctionPtr

[Manuel M. T. Chakravarty]

"Alastair Reid" <reid at cs.utah.edu> wrote,

> > > I would let freeHaskellFunPtr accept and ignore nullFunPtr, since I
> > > once had to write
> > >     when (ptr /= nullFunPtr) $ freeHaskellFunPtr ptr
> > > and it can be seen as consistent with free.
> 
> This sort of behaviour is comon in C but I think this is mostly because C has
> such a weak type system.
[..]
> Which is all just my long-winded way of saying I agree with Simon that we
> should not do this.  Even if f.e.d. could return nullFunPtr, we should not do
> this because we can express it better using a Maybe.

I think, I agree with this.

Manuel