[Yhc] Some suggested changes to Yhc.Core

Tom Shackell shackell at cs.york.ac.uk
Sat Aug 4 04:06:47 EDT 2007


> Is it useful to have
> "name of function in C (or Nothing for same as haskell)"
> , or would it be more convenient as an always-present string that is 
> filled in with the Haskell-name if necessary?

> Or to put it another way, should something like
> `foreign import ccall doSomething :: IO ()`
> be distinguishable from
> `foreign import ccall "doSomething" doSomething :: IO ()`

Interesting question, I opted for the "keep as much information as 
possible" approach, but having said that I can't think of a single 
useful example where you'd want to be able to distinguish the above.

I'd be equally happy for it to be filled in automatically,

What do people think?


Tom


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