11 Jul
2009
11 Jul
'09
4:03 p.m.
Ross Paterson wrote:
The FFI spec refers to types Int8, Int16, Int32, Int64, Word8, Word16, Word32, Word64, Ptr a, FunPtr a and StablePtr a. Perhaps they should move to the Prelude when the non-library part of the FFI spec is incorporated into the Report?
The Prelude specification imports Char, Numeric and Ratio. It also uses (but does not import) IO(BufferMode(..), hSetBuffering, stdio, stdout). The Numeric specification imports Array, but only uses it for an optimization of 2^n.
The Prelude seems to do double duty: * stuff needed to support the language definition, etc. * useful stuff you'll probably want to import Is it worth separating these? -- Ashley Yakeley