I'd say go ahead and remove them. For most of the native modules I've written,
I use unsafe pointers instead of ty_native, and that seems to work better for
me.
-Eric
On Sep 30, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Patrick Walton wrote:
> I think native types might have outlived their usefulness at this point. We
> can represent them as ints, and their type safety can be achieved via tags.
>
> So
>
> native mod ... { type ModuleRef; }
>
> becomes
>
> tag ModuleRef = int;
>
> This has the nice benefit of being able to use sizes other than words; e.g.
> u64. (This was the use case that motivated this post.)
>
> Thoughts on removing them?
>
> Patrick
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