Re[2]: error in your article? about meaning of safe/unsafe in "foreign import"

Hello Peter, Friday, May 20, 2005, 1:30:08 PM, you wrote: PS> just for the record, it's not my article. Although I have the PS> privilege of sharing a somewhat similar name with the geniuses PS> around here, I didn't have any part in that text. ;-) i answered your letter but wrote to Simon PJ PS> Since pure FFI calls don't have any side-effects, they are PS> always safe to be called unsafely. sorry, but even pure C function can call back to Haskell world and lead to GC. so the meaning of "IO" and "unsafe" are completely orthogonal. moreover, 90% of called C fucntions will not call back to Haskell, whether they in IO monad or not -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com