[ghc-steering-committee] A plea for ForeignFunctionInterface

[Simon Peyton Jones]

|  clarify – after all SPJ writes
|  
|  > I don't think the FFI should be on by default, as it is used
|  > relatively infrequently, although it might be nice if
|  > `ForeignFunctionInterface` implied `CApiFFI`

I didn't actually write that -- I just copied it from Iavor without thinking carefully enough.

I agree we should not remove it. Plus change my vote for FFI to yes.

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: ghc-steering-committee <ghc-steering-committee-
|  bounces at haskell.org> On Behalf Of Joachim Breitner
|  Sent: 17 December 2020 17:31
|  To: ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org
|  Subject: Re: [ghc-steering-committee] A plea for
|  ForeignFunctionInterface
|  
|  Hi,
|  
|  Am Donnerstag, den 17.12.2020, 09:19 -0800 schrieb Iavor Diatchki:
|  >  I updated my vote to "yes" (I hope, it's a bit hard to see the
|  votes).
|  
|  see column ID on
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|  you have a ✓ next to ForeignFunctionInterface, so your vote is
|  counted.
|  
|  We don't have a ✓ from Cale, Eric, SPJ. I assume none of them actually
|  want to remove something from Haskell2010, but it doesn't hurt to
|  clarify – after all SPJ writes
|  
|  > I don't think the FFI should be on by default, as it is used
|  > relatively infrequently, although it might be nice if
|  > `ForeignFunctionInterface` implied `CApiFFI`
|  
|  so maybe this _is_ a proposal to make FFI extension-guarded, even
|  though it wasn't in Haskell2010?
|  
|  Cheers,
|  Joachim
|  
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|  Joachim Breitner
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