foreign export dynamic is a shortcut for importing an automatically generated nontrivial C function, with argument type not conforming to regular imports, which could not be written by hand.
I don't get it. How do you use a function with a type like: (Int -> IO Int) -> Addr to import a C function? The closest I can get is to use foreign label to get an Addr (or FunPtr if preferred) but now I'm stuck. What's up?
So it's actually an *import*! It could be spelled as import with a magical name - again all parameters are in the type.
But it is also used for exporting so the name doesn't seem that inappropriate. Unless you're arguing that, since it brings a name into scope it can be thought of as a kind of import??? (But I don't think you are saying that.) -- Alastair Reid reid@cs.utah.edu http://www.cs.utah.edu/~reid/