Re: Foreign type
Monique Louise <[email protected]> Wed, 18 May 2005 13:49:28 -0300
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I saw it for the first time in the code " foreign type dotnet "BigInteger" BigInteger " in module Num.lhs from GHC prelude. I think it defines a type to be "foreign": a way to say the type is not defined in Haskell, but in the foreign language. On 5/18/05, Lemmih <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/18/05, Monique Louise <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > does anyone know what package should be imported to make GHC accept > > a declaration like "foreign type dotnet "BigInteger" BigInteger" ? > > I've searched at Google, GHC and FFI documentation but I haven't found > > anything. >=20 > What is a foreign type? >=20 > -- > Friendly, > Lemmih >=20 --=20 ________________________________ Monique Louise B.Monteiro Msc Student in Computer Science Center of Informatics Federal University of Pernambuco