[Haskell-cafe] Dynamic types through unsafeCoerce

[Alfonso Acosta]

On 12/9/06, Udo Stenzel <u.stenzel at web.de> wrote:
> You wouldn't need a Typeable context anyway; what's biting you is that
> Dynamic is not one of the primitive types that can pass across the FFI.
> There are good reasons for that and unsafeCoerce certainly cannot
> invalidate them.
>
> You want a StablePtr.

I'm using StablePtrs already, what made you assume I wasn't using them?

> > would the use of unsafeCoerce be dangerous?
>
> If you have to ask, then yes.

The name of the function makes it clear, it is unsafe, but it is still
used in many cases. I just wanted to know if it was dangerous is this
concrete example.

Taral gave a good reason
>
> -Udo
> --
> "Never confuse motion with action." -- Ernest Hemingway
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