"Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj@microsoft.com> wrote,
| .NET is a different beast from other calling conventions in | that you may want to compile Haskell ccalls to .NET | intermediate language. In other words, it is about being | able to implement ccall *on* .NET. Thus, the mix.
I think that is exactly the issue.
| At the moment, there doesn't seem to be much support for | [lib]. The last message from SimonPJ (a while ago) on this | issues also seems to indicate that he isn't to bothered about | it. But AFAIK he is away at the moment.
So let's omit it for now; but we will need to think about what to do when someone really does do a Haskell-on-.NET binding.
So, overall this point is settled, then; implying that we stick with Alastair's recent change of the spec in that regard. Manuel