| I think the essence of Daan's proposal was that the goals we hope to | achieve using 'bound', 'threadsafe', and other ffi annotations could | be achieved by adding a small amount of additional functionality | and wrappers and that benefits of doing this are: That all sounds splendid. If only I understood what the proposal actually was. (Precisely; I do have a vague understanding of it, but it's a slippery topic.) Simon