On 11/6/06, roconnor@theorem.ca
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Samuel Bronson wrote:
And use them for the default implementation of rotate, while we are at it.
I thought you had a patch to GHC that worked really well? I think it is much beter idea to fix the inliner rather than exposing unsafe functionality.
It isn't really *unsafe*, exactly. But it might not be purely functional. However, it isn't imperative or anything like that. Also, for rotate, I needed to change the implementations in the *libraries* (it was only the GHC-specific implementations, though). (Also, nobody seems to have applied that patch yet for some reason.) And I needed to change them to use the raw, unchecked primops. Oh, that reminds me. Why call them "unsafe"? Why not "unchecked" as GHC's primops are called?