Foreign.destructArray

Manuel M T Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:19:31 +1000 (EST)


Hal Daume III <hdaume@ISI.EDU> wrote,

> Doesn't look like it.  I looked around the full archive and the only
> mention of destructArray is from Marcin's post from March 2001:
> 
> > If not, I'm going to add also destructArray and destructArray0 to
> > MarshalArray, and lengthArray0 while I am at it (it was used internally
> > so it makes sense to be provided separately), and document it.

See the thread started with 

  http://haskell.org/pipermail/ffi/2001-August/000406.html

It proposes to remove the destruct functions.

> Regardless, it would be nice if functions were first deprecated and then
> removed.  

Mea culpa.  I have usually deprecated dying FFI functions
first, but obviously screwed it up here.  Sorry.

Cheers,
Manuel