Suggestion re Data.Storable.Array

[Paul Steckler]

Hi,

  I recently needed to access C-like arrays
from Haskell.  Everyone pointed me to 
Data.Storable.Array, but that wasn't quite
what I wanted.  The MArray class that provides 
the interface for storable arrays insists that 
it create the storage via newArray or newArray_.
But I already had the C storage I needed; I justed 
wanted to wrap that in Haskell.

  I cons'ed up my own primitives, which work just 
fine, but it would be nice to just use something 
already in the libraries.  Concretely, adding 
a way to create a storable array from an existing 
Ptr would've done the trick.  I can see that's 
less safe, but sometimes you have to live 
dangerously!

-- Paul