> The questions that come up as I implement the ffi are mostly things > that are not clear from the spec. This is a particularily good > example of that - there's no example and the explanation is brief and > open to many interpretations. I could hunt through the archives and > guess at what the final decision was or I could ask for clarification > so that we all agree on what change is needed to the report (or I look > foolish when the appropriate section of the report is pointed out to > me). > > In this case, all I could find was a brief discussion with no final > conclusion. (Or maybe I missed the conclusion - the subject lines one > the messages are fairly uninformative so I skimmed old mail fairly > quickly.)
See these threads, for example: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ffi/2001-February/000212.html http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ffi/2001-May/000345.html Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ FFI mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ffi