> I have just committed the changes necessary to make GHC
> conform to the FFI Addendum 1.0 to the CVS repo. The old
> style of foreign declarations is still supported, but causes
> deprecation warnings.
Fantastic. Thanks!
> I had to change one thing in the FFI Report. I renamed the
> `IOErrorType' inspection functions from `MarshalError' to
>
> alreadyExistsErrorType :: IOErrorType
> doesNotExistErrorType :: IOErrorType
> alreadyInUseErrorType :: IOErrorType
> fullErrorType :: IOErrorType
> eofErrorType :: IOErrorType
> illegalOperationType :: IOErrorType
> permissionErrorType :: IOErrorType
> userErrorType :: IOErrorType
>
> The old proposal of using `userError' for the last function
> clashed with the function of the same name in the
> `Prelude'.
Oh yes, I didn't notice that. I think these renamings are fine.
> I was wondering whether we should have functions
> `isAlreadyExistsErrorType' etc, as otherwise, values of
> `IOErrorType' need to be wrapped into an `IOError' before
> they can be inspected with the standard routines from `IO'.
> But this would just be a convenience, which I am not sure
> whether it would really be needed much. So, I haven't added
> it. Opinions?
I think I mentioned before that I'd like to flesh out the support for
building/inspecting IOErrors a bit more. I'd like to see:
-- c.f. IO.ioeGetHandle etc.
ioeGetType :: IOError -> IOErrorType
isAlreadyExistsErrorType :: IOErrorType -> Bool
isDoesNotExistErrorType :: IOErrorType -> Bool
...
in the New Libraries I plan to export the IOError-manipulating
functionality from System.IO.Error.
Cheers,
Simon
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