On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > * Vincent Hanquez: > >> Native means the implementation is in haskell, and the library is >> not using another implementation (in another language) to do the >> work: either through FFI as a binding, or as a wrapper to an >> external program. > > I can see how this terminology makes sense, but it's the opposite of > the usage in Java (where "native" == "unmanaged code called via JNI").
I guess it depends on the context. If the context is a C program then 'native' means the C code in the program and 'foreign' means other code like Haskell. If the context is a Haskell program then 'native' means the Haskell code and 'foreign' means other code like C. Most of the time we're programming in Haskell so I think our context is Haskell. Also note that the "_Foreign_ Function Interface" hasn't been named the "Haskell _Native_ Interface". Bas _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
