[Haskell-beginners] Foreign function interface?

Still just doinking around with Haskell, trying to get a feel for it. (It still looks pretty obscure to me so far.) I see that Haskell has a foreign function interface and a preprocessor to help generate. I normally work in Python, so am familiar with its concept of extension modules (C code written using Python's C API to go back and forth between Python and underlying C library code), tools to automate that like SWIG and Boost.Python, and Python's ctypes module which uses libffi. What of these tools does Haskell's foreign function interface most closely resemble? Can it interface with C++ as well as C? Thx, -- Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/