> [...] doesn't answer the question of why these things have changed [...]
We dropped Haskell finalizers because neither Hugs nor NHC could implement them and implementing them would pretty much require them to implement preemptive concurrency (i.e., multiple threads each with their own stacks). These issues were considered important because one goal of the ffi spec was to improve portability between implementations and also because we explicitly decided not to do anything that requires concurrency or other H98 extensions. -- Alastair Reid _______________________________________________ FFI mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ffi
