In local.cvs-libraries, you wrote: > I left those out for the time being because I think the interface should
Ah, I was wondering why it was still there but in fact did browse System/Posix.hs first to see if there was a note explaining the reason. I decided that probably someone was just too lazy to figure out the FFI transition and left it as such. > perhaps be in terms of IOUArray of Word8, or at least [Word8] rather > than String. Using IOUArray of Word8 would let you avoid the > inefficiency of lists if you're just shoving data around. I don't use this interface myself, my work was just prompted by G.Russel's problem which I tried tracking down. I don't know how many users would be affected by API breakage, so maybe a different representation should mean a new function and maybe a transition roadmap...Could this be simply deprecated in favour of hGetArray (or a wrapper for Strings on top of that)? -- http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/stolz/ *** PGP *** S/MIME rage against the finite state machine _______________________________________________ Cvs-libraries mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-libraries
