16 Oct
2007
16 Oct
'07
10:09 a.m.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:57:01PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
Certainly, this is something we want to support. However, there's an important difference between shared-library linking and Haskell: in Haskell, a superset of an API is not backwards-compatible, because it has the potential to cause new name clashes.
This is the case on Unixy .so systems too, because the namespace is flat. If libreadline suddenly starts exporting a symbol named SDL_init, programs which use both readline and sdl will break. I have not seen this happen in practice. (Which might have something to do with the aforementioned name mangling :)) Stefan