Re: ForeignPtr-related signatures

Sven Panne <Sven.Panne@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> writes:

Just some small questions: Are we really going to change the signatures of newForeignPtr and addForeignPtrFinalizer from those which GHC has for ages to the new "C finaliser only" ones? Why don't we use other names and deprecate the old ones?

As I recall, there was considerable sympathy for using new names for the C-finaliser-only functions, preferably incorporating the word "unsafe", and no-one argued for re-using the old names with the new signatures. Regards, Malcolm