"Erik Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> I can reveal a little secret (Sigbjorn is far away in the
> Norwegian woods :-) namely that soon H/Direct will
> directly support .h files, which means that it will even
> be easier than before to get automate all the boring work
> in making standard C libraries available to Haskell. Just
> drag and drop it onto H/Direct and off you go.
That's interesting, indeed. I am also close to finishing
the first version of a tool that simplifies Haskell access
to C libraries by extracting interface information from C
headers. Actually, I have just completed the draft of a
paper about the tool that I plan to present at IFL'99 next
month:
``C -> Haskell, or Yet Another Interfacing Tool''
http://www.score.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~chak/papers/Cha99b.html
> Hopefully this will convince the COM criticasters and MS
> sceptists that H/Direct is cool indeed.
I for one never doubted that H/Direct is cool. This is not
a matter of being critical towards COM; it is a matter of
"COM doesn't run on my Linux box" (nor does it run on SunOS,
HP/UX, etc).
Anyway, I am still thinking about adapting H/Direct to work
with GNOME (www.gnome.org - the GNU answer to COM, DCOM, and
ActiveX) when I am through with GTK+.
Manuel
