The numeric c types are (effectively) integral, too.

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Thu Mar 28 21:49:41 CET 2013


On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Jason Dusek <jason.dusek at gmail.com> wrote:
>       One way to think of it is, CTime is time and should follow the
>       rules of the time. Another way is, CTime is a C type and should
>       follow the rules of C types.  The latter perspective seems more
>       appropriate for Foreign.C.* (we are likely to seek out some
>       other module for modelling time).
> 
> 
> Phrasing this perhaps more clearly: the point of the FFI types is to reflect foreign types.

If CTime is only for interfacing with C, then there should not be any 
arithmetic or bit manipulation class instances of it, only some conversion 
functions between CTime and Haskell time representations.


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