"Alastair Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> > Without a standard way to get
> > at unsafePerformIO, such code would still rely on
> > non-standard features, which goers against the aim of
> > standardising the rest of the FFI.
>
> The Hugs-GHC standard libs have them exported from IOExts.
>
> Of course, the Hugs-GHC standard isn't an official Haskell library committee
>approved standard but, since it's something like 4
> years old, I think it's a better candidate for approval than the ffi library which
>hasn't really stabilised yet, hasn't been whacked
> on by a large number of users, is much younger, etc.
There is only one flaw: It doesn't work with nhc98.
I'd really prefer to keep the FFI stuff self-contained and
have it work on ghc, Hugs, *and* nhc.
Cheers,
Manuel
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