Re: Proposed change to ForeignPtr

Alastair Reid <alastair@reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk> writes:

I'm not sure which position you're preferring here. I lean a bit towards using the old names for the new functions (the ones with free functions) and finding new names for the old functions (the ones with closure arguments).

That would be my preference as well. Keep the existing standard names, but change their type signatures to reflect what Hugs and nhc98 can actually implement. Add new names with the old signatures for what ghc can additionally implement via its concurrency model. Regards, Malcolm