igloo: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:00:38PM -0700, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > > > > This goes back to an old gripe of mine actually -- we can't get > > at the length of a C string literal at compile time either, which > > would be super useful in rules. > > I think that this is easy to do by, instead of desugaring > > "foo" -> unpackCString# "foo"# > > desugaring > > "foo" -> unpackCStringLen# 3# "foo"# > > where > > unpackCStringLen# _ = unpackCString# > > It's not really feasible to do head#, tail# etc this way, though, so if > head#/tail# are done another way then it's probably best to do length# > that way too. > > By the way, please do file tickets for the issues from this thread, so > that the issues and ideas don't get forgotten about!
I'd be fine with just having unpackCStringLen# (assuming the string is also still null terminated too). - Don _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
