15 Oct
2002
15 Oct
'02
5:06 a.m.
and if we are adding things to the FFI spec, how about the empty data declaration? it is painfully simple to implement and would make FFI code a lot cleaner as it tends to depend heavily on placeholder types..
Hugs and ghc already have it (AFAIK). I recently added it to nhc98. Do you think it should become a formal part of the FFI standard? Or is it best left as another "common" extension of Haskell'98 that just happens to be implemented everywhere?
I think it's main use is in the ffi so it makes sense to add it there. I don't feel that strongly about this though. A