Is Safe Haskell intended to allow segfaults?

Bardur Arantsson spam at scientician.net
Fri Aug 12 21:06:04 UTC 2016


On 2016-08-12 20:37, Edward Kmett wrote:
> What about consuming Storable Vectors carefully, or simply working
> parameterized over vector type, where Storable vectors are one of the
> options?
> 

There was actually a great paper about a very similar thing (i.e.
"here's the usual interface" vs. "here's how it should be done") recently:

    http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/pub/twisted.pdf

It may be of interest -- at least as far as an "improved Ptr/Storable" goes.

Cheers,



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