Strict arguments with foreign import

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Wed Mar 16 04:27:07 EST 2005


Andre Pang <ozone at algorithm.com.au> writes:

> I'm just wondering -- for "primitive" C types (int, float, char, etc),
> why was the decision made in the FFI to have function declarations
> look like e.g.
>
>   foreign import ccall "math.h sin" sin :: CDouble -> CDouble
>
> rather than
>
>   foreign import ccall "math.h sin" sin :: !CDouble -> !CDouble

Haskell doesn't reflect strictness of functions in their types,
no matter whether foreign or not.

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