[Haskell-cafe] Convert to unboxed value? How?

[Simon Marlow]

On 27 January 2005 12:36, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:

> What function should be used to convert an integer value to Int#?

This function:

  f :: Int -> Int#
  f (I# x) = x

> A character to Char#?

Similarly:

 f :: Char -> Char#
 f (C# c) = c

there aren't any library functions that do this for you.

Cheers,
	Simon