new ForeignPtr without finalizers
Axel Simon
A.Simon at kent.ac.uk
Mon Jun 9 08:58:08 EDT 2003
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:21:38PM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Ashley Yakeley <ashley at semantic.org> writes:
>
> > Specifically I want a ForeignPtr of a null Ptr that has no finalizers.
>
> Ah, this makes sense.
> I wonder if we should add the following to the FFI spec module ForeignPtr?
>
> nullForeignPtr :: ForeignPtr a -- a null pointer with null finalizer
Yes, please. I use this function quite extensively in gtk2hs.
Thanks,
Axel.
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