Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

I propose the following guideline:

* what to import / as what to export - inside the string * how to import/export - outside the string [...]

Hmmm, that's an opinion, but not a technical reason. What I was hoping for is a real rationale for the extent string, i.e. why neither the one extreme topdecl : 'foreign' string var '::' type nor my last suggestion (the opposite extreme) would fit. Currently we seem to draw a rather arbitrary line between "real" Haskell syntax and the extent string, while my last suggestion only used strings for entities where nothing Haskell-like would fit syntactically, i.e. C identifiers and #include paths. So I'm with Alastair and Fergus, but I'm still ready to be convinced otherwise... Cheers, Sven -- Sven Panne Fon: +49/89/99567000 Fax: +49/89/99567461 BetaResearch GmbH, Betastr. 1, D-85774 Unterfoehring mailto:Sven_Panne@BetaResearch.de http://www.betaresearch.de