Hello, A few weeks ago I was thinking about the strange situation with Yhc's numeric primitives. Some of them are in the bytecode set, and some are handled through the FFI (at least I think that's what's happening). Thinking about it led me to decide it would be better to somehow represent all the numeric primitives as bytecode operations. So, I wrote up a proposal. Anyone who is interested can check it out at: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:Num-bytecodes.txt The ideas are about 3/4 baked (which is to say, somewhat more than half-baked ;-) ) I think the integer stuff is pretty good, and the floating point is OK. I'm less sure about the pointer stuff. At any rate, I thought I'd share the proposal so it doesn't become completely lost in the dark recesses of my home directory. Rob Dockins Speak softly and drive a Sherman tank. Laugh hard; it's a long way to the bank. -- TMBG