Request: withArrayLength
Simon Marlow
simonmar at microsoft.com
Tue Mar 30 04:26:20 EST 2004
> The suggestion wasn't to rename it, but to move it from base
> to haskell98.
>
> Then you could add these functions without changing the
> interface of any
> of the modules listed in the FFI Addendum.
That would amount to saying that 'Foreign' isn't a hierarchical library
any more, and anyone wishing to use purely hirerarchical libraries in
their code should avoid it.
On one hand, this looks reasonable: Foreign already doesn't re-export
Foreign.C. However, I do use it all the time. So if we ever decided to
allow disabling of the haskell98 package, lots of supposedly
purely-hierarchical code would break. Ho hum.
Cheers,
Simon
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