Bikeshedding the cstringLength name?
Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]>
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An equivalent function of course already exists outside base:
$ hoogle 'CString -> IO CSize'
Data.ByteString.Internal c_strlen :: CString -> IO CSize
unsurprisingly defined as:
foreign import ccall unsafe "string.h strlen" c_strlen
:: CString -> IO CSize
Would it make sense to give the proposed new Foreign.C.Types function
the same "c_strlen" name? And then at some point in the future,
Data.ByteString.Internal can just re-export it?
Would using `cstringLength`, as proposed, be too confusable with the
`cstringLength#` primop?
--
Viktor.
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