On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:40:31AM +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
What I would really like is a syntax to statically construct an array, without having to compute it from a list. I'm not sure that even Template Haskell can help here, since there is no normal form for it to translate to.
This is exactly what my ForeignData proposal on the haskell-prime wiki is meant to address http://haskell.galois.com/cgi-bin/haskell-prime/trac.cgi/wiki/ForeignData It is trivial to implement and seems like a straightforward accidental omission in the FFI spec so I'd like to see it go in. though, I only have it specified for creating pointers to data, it wouldn't be much trickier to make it work for haskell unboxed arrays too (though, you can just make a StorableArray out of them easily as stands) Plus, if this were in haskell I can honestly say "Haskell can do everything C can do but better" without mubling something about with a few caveats under my breath :) John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈