Re: FFI digest, Vol 1 #218 - 3 msgs

2002-10-01 Thread George Russell
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: George Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, Simon Marlow wrote PS. I'm sorry to keep banging on about this. Ultimately it doesn't really matter to me that much, since I only really use mallocForeignPtr. I guess I was just intrigued to see if the problem

Re: FFI digest, Vol 1 #218 - 3 msgs

2002-10-01 Thread Alastair Reid
I agree that it's extremely unsatisfactory, but it seems the best option (to me) of defining it is not going to be accepted. So at least it would be better if GHC's documentation said We implement the FFI while Hugs and NHC's said We implement the FFI with the caveat that finalizers may

Re: addForeignPtrFinalizer

2002-10-01 Thread Alastair Reid
I have to say that, given Simon's patch, I am inclined to revert back to the old API for foreign pointers. I don't think such a change should be made unless Malcolm and I are able to implement it. I'm not yet convinced that Simon's patch is as easy or correct as it seems and will not be

Re: addForeignPtrFinalizer

2002-10-01 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Alastair Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, I have to say that, given Simon's patch, I am inclined to revert back to the old API for foreign pointers. I don't think such a change should be made unless Malcolm and I are able to implement it. I'm not yet convinced that Simon's patch is

Re: addForeignPtrFinalizer

2002-10-01 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
PS: Is everybody going to be at PLI'02? Then, we could discuss this face to face. Manuel ___ FFI mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ffi