Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
> [...]
> It is on our GHC ToDo lists to convert GHC's various libraries to use
> Green Card, but this won't happen before we've got a working&stable IDL
> compiler. (Green Card 3 (aka H/Direct) will use IDL to interface to
> external libs instead of the homegrown language used by Green Card 2.)
Moving to a standard is a good thing, but Green Card seems to move
faster than existing code for it can be adapted. What is the schedule
for GC3 and will there be something like a GC2->GC3 converter?
In an earlier mail, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> [...]
> By the way, in a discussion earlier this week between the implementors
> of ghc and of the nhc13 library, we agreed a new high-level interface
> to the Binary I/O stuff. Essentially the low-level functions such as
> 'getBits' will remain the same, but there will be a new layer of
> secure typed I/O on top. This means you can expect to see an
> implementation of Binary in ghc/Hugs at some point in the future, and
> likewise you can expect nhc13's Binary library to grow soon too. [...]
Is there a draft for this new interface somewhere? Nothing very
concrete, just to get a feeling for what is changing. This has nothing
to do with Green Card per se, but both things are needed for some
planned/running projects here and I suspect this combination will not
be uncommon when existing APIs are ported to Haskell.
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