Simon Marlow: > On 25 April 2006 09:51, John Meacham wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:40:58AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > >> Admittedly I haven't tried this route (not including *any* external > >> headers at all when compiling .hc files). It might be possible, but > >> you lose the safety net of compiler-checked calls. > > > > yeah, perhaps a hybrid approach of some sort, when building the > > package, use the system headers, but then include generated > > prototypes inside the package-file and don't propagate #includes once > > the package is built. > > > > or just an intitial conformance check against the system headers > > somehow (?), but then only use your own generated ones when actually > > compiling haskell code. It would be nice to never need to include > > external headers in .hc files. > > Hmm, the more I think about it, the more I like this idea. It means we > could essentially forget about the public/private header file stuff, we > don't need the extra pragmas, and there would be no restrictions on > inlining of foreign calls.
That'd be great! Manuel _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime