Sven Panne <Sven.Panne@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
Yet another change request for the FFI libraries: For reasons of consistency, I propose to introduce an intermediate module Foreign.Marshal, which re-exports the modules:
Foreign.Marshal.Alloc Foreign.Marshal.Array Foreign.Marshal.Error Foreign.Marshal.Pool Foreign.Marshal.Utils
Seems reasonable. It is a useful addition, with a trivial implementation, so there's not much to go wrong I think.
While I'm at it: What was the reason for the decision that Foreign.C re-exports
Foreign.C.Types Foreign.C.String Foreign.C.Error
but not Foreign.C.TypesISO? If there wasn't a good one, I propose to add this for consistency again.
I was recently pondering the same question. The answer is that Foreign.C.Types already re-exports everything from Foreign.C.TypesISO, and therefore, transitively, Foreign.C also does so. I do seem to remember a proposal at one stage to remove Foreign.C.TypesISO altogether by incorporating it fully into Foreign.C.Types. Given that the latter re-exports everything from the former, is there any reason for TypesISO to remain separate? Regards, Malcolm