On 03-Jan-2001, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl> wrote:
Wed, 3 Jan 2001 21:12:54 +1100, Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> pisze:
Well, if they are left, then at very least they should be very clearly documented as being non-portable.
They should, they aren't. Perl internally [...]
By "they", I mean the Haskell routines under discussion. Your examples of dlsym() and readline are sufficiently convincing that I agree that these conversion functions should be left in. But they should be documented properly. (The fact that Perl and other software has undocumented non-portabilities doesn't imply that we should be lax in documenting our own stuff!) -- Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> | "I have always known that the pursuit | of excellence is a lethal habit" WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.