Food for thought: Numeric.Special

[Keith Wansbrough]

> Keith.Wansbrough writes:
> > Automate!
> >
> > You must avoid actually writing the import declarations for each
> > function by hand.  
> 
> If the functions are all of the complexity of sin, cos, etc., it is hard to 
> improve significantly on:
> 
>   foreign import ccall sin :: Double -> Double
> 
> There's just not much information you can leave out of this.
> (Perhaps you could save the first three tokens but they're not that hard to 
> cut and paste).

I was imagining a tool (or a hand-crafted Perl script if necessary)
that turned

double gsl_sf_sin(double x);

into

foreign import ccall "gsl_sf_sin" sin :: Double -> Double

That wouldn't be too hard, and if there really are zillions of
functions, it would save a lot of work for the straightforward cases.

--KW 8-)


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Keith Wansbrough <kw217@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.