Re: Strict arguments with foreign import

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:27:07 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.haskell.ffi
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Andre Pang <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm just wondering -- for "primitive" C types (int, float, char, etc),
> why was the decision made in the FFI to have function declarations
> look like e.g.
>
>   foreign import ccall "math.h sin" sin :: CDouble -> CDouble
>
> rather than
>
>   foreign import ccall "math.h sin" sin :: !CDouble -> !CDouble

Haskell doesn't reflect strictness of functions in their types,
no matter whether foreign or not.

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