On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:20 AM, David Virebayre wrote: So, even if, in C, you may be able to apply arithmetic operations to a
time_t, you can't be sure it makes sense, so you shouldn't normally do
it. Why then, make it easier in Foreign.C to do something meaningless
? That's just begging to shoot yourself in the foot. Because you need to convert it from a foreign representation, which may
require arbitrary math depending on the details of that representation.
And, while there may not be a strict meaning applied by the standard, there
*is* a platform-dependent strict meaning (else times would be useless)
*and* the conversion between the FFI and Haskell representations will need
to know that platform-dependent meaning so that it can do a meaningful
conversion.
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