Re: extended foreign decls

Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> wrote,

Personally I'd rather have a single well-designed convenient foreign language interface as a standard part of the language, rather than having a minimalistic foreign language interface in the language standard and having convenience provided by a separate tool (or by several competing separate tools). But I understand why you might differ on that point.

I doubt that you want to support the functionality of H/Direct or C->HS in the standard part of the language, which means that without a tool you have to settle for less anyway. Or in other words, you will use a tool anyway for getting a really convenient interface. If so, why not move as much of the work to the tool as possible? Cheers, Manuel