RE: Request: withArrayLength
"Simon Marlow" <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:26:20 +0100
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> The suggestion wasn't to rename it, but to move it from base > to haskell98. > > Then you could add these functions without changing the > interface of any > of the modules listed in the FFI Addendum. That would amount to saying that 'Foreign' isn't a hierarchical library any more, and anyone wishing to use purely hirerarchical libraries in their code should avoid it. On one hand, this looks reasonable: Foreign already doesn't re-export Foreign.C. However, I do use it all the time. So if we ever decided to allow disabling of the haskell98 package, lots of supposedly purely-hierarchical code would break. Ho hum. Cheers, Simon