I saw it for the first time in the code " foreign type dotnet "BigInteger" BigInteger " in module Num.lhs from GHC prelude. I think it defines a type to be "foreign": a way to say the type is not defined in Haskell, but in the foreign language.
On 5/18/05, Lemmih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/18/05, Monique Louise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > does anyone know what package should be imported to make GHC accept > > a declaration like "foreign type dotnet "BigInteger" BigInteger" ? > > I've searched at Google, GHC and FFI documentation but I haven't found > > anything. > > What is a foreign type? > > -- > Friendly, > Lemmih > -- ________________________________ Monique Louise B.Monteiro Msc Student in Computer Science Center of Informatics Federal University of Pernambuco _______________________________________________ FFI mailing list FFI@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ffi
