RE: Sockets & Green Card

1998-05-06 Thread Frank A. Christoph
>Hope to have a release ready soon. A translator that spits out IDL >specs given Green Card 2 input will not be supplied, as the two >approaches to describing bindings to foreign functionality are >fundamentally different. Green Card 2 starts with a Haskell type >signature and tries to derive the

Re: Sockets & Green Card

1998-05-05 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Sven Panne writes: > > Moving to a standard is a good thing, but Green Card seems to move > faster than existing code for it can be adapted. What is the schedule > for GC3 and will there be something like a GC2->GC3 converter? > Hope to have a release ready soon. A translator that spits out ID

Re: Sockets & Green Card

1998-05-05 Thread Sven Panne
Sigbjorn Finne wrote: > [...] > It is on our GHC ToDo lists to convert GHC's various libraries to use > Green Card, but this won't happen before we've got a working&stable IDL > compiler. (Green Card 3 (aka H/Direct) will use IDL to interface to > external libs instead of the homegrown language us

Re: Sockets & Green Card

1998-05-04 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Vasili Galchin writes: > >Two questions: > > 1) Where are the Berkeley Sockets Library functions actually >defined? I.e in which file?? Can Hugs use this?? Hi, I'm not sure if this is what you're asking for, but GHC comes with a BSD networking module/interface (called BS

Sockets & Green Card

1998-05-04 Thread Vasili Galchin
Dear Haskell Community, Two questions: 1) Where are the Berkeley Sockets Library functions actually defined? I.e in which file?? Can Hugs use this?? 2) In the above 1), obviously this uses green card for foreign language calls? Regards, Bill Halchin