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Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Mon Aug 19 12:16:34 EDT 2002


| .NET is a different beast from other calling conventions in 
| that you may want to compile Haskell ccalls to .NET 
| intermediate language.  In other words, it is about being 
| able to implement ccall *on* .NET.  Thus, the mix.

I think that is exactly the issue.  

| At the moment, there doesn't seem to be much support for
| [lib].  The last message from SimonPJ (a while ago) on this 
| issues also seems to indicate that he isn't to bothered about 
| it.  But AFAIK he is away at the moment.  

So let's omit it for now; but we will need to think about what to 
do when someone really does do a Haskell-on-.NET binding.

Simon



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