On 18-Jun-2001, Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> | IMHO, this is not a very attractive solution. I'd prefer to
> | complicate the ccall entity description slightly and go for
> |
> | foreign import ccall "myheader.h foo@mylib" foo :: Int -> Int
> |
> | Ie, we optionally allow the specification of the name of a
> | dll. This is only a hint and may be ignored by a given
> | Haskell system (in particular, in most systems, command line
> | options overrule such library names).
>
> OK: belt and braces. Certainly the 'mylib' is properly part of foo's
> external name. Let's use the "::" syntax which .NET uses for other
> namespace management things
>
> "myheader.h mylib::foo" foo :: Int->Int
This is a DLL qualification rather than a namespace qualification;
it's similar in some ways, but not quite the same.
The closest .NET equivalent would be assembly qualification, which is
written as "[mylib]foo" in ILASM and "foo,mylib" in ASP+ web.config files.
So I suggest using the ILASM syntax, i.e.
"myheader.h [mylib]foo" foo :: Int->Int
But it doesn't matter too much exactly which syntax is chosen.
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