Hello Axel, Friday, November 17, 2006, 11:27:00 AM, you wrote:
> (l_ "Translate this") > is compiled into a C string constant, that GHC then turns lazily into a > list of characters, which l_ then turns into an array in C land to pass > to the gettext function, which, in turn, returns a new C string array > that has to be turned into a Haskell string again. So I'm glad Lennart > proposed to turn String into a class which would then make it possible > to pass a pointer to a contant C string to gettext. i'm not sure that you are right. GHC can perform compile-time computation of constant expressions. Don Bruce should know better, once he pointed out how a String constant can be turned into ByteString one at compile time -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
