On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Henning Thielemann
The Storable class is part of the FFI and thus I think we must comply to the system ABI.
I think it's actually kind of overloaded, because it has haskell-only types like Char. I actually think it's really dangerous and we should have a separate Storable for each language, which only that language's types (that just C at the moment). I've already done it that way for quite a few years now. So I'm against tuples in Storable because tuples don't exist in C, so you should really be using a record with a corresponding struct. For non-FFI use a tuple makes sense, but aren't there lots of other ways to do that? E.g. I think Data.Vector.Unboxed has special support, and binary serialization has Data.Binary, etc.