Re: Extension to the FFI to allow macro expansions to be avoided

Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:53:30 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.haskell.ffi
Organization	Dept of Computer Science, University of York
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Sven Panne <[email protected]> writes:

> Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > [...] the Haskell FFI has sacrificed quality for easy of implementation.
> > If this starts causing problems for users, I think the right solution
> > is to raise the bar for implementations, not to lower it. [...]
> 
> P.S. to Malcolm: I did not mention nhc98, because I don't know how its
> back-end works, not because of an evil master plan against nhc98... :-)

S'okay.  nhc98's default backend always compiles via C, and therefore
FFI declarations that use macros will work in much the expected way
(I think).

Regards,
    Malcolm