> > > (no, I'm not sure why they're in the C section of the FFI > > spec either). > > Because they are for implementing calls to C code in Haskell > that is compiled to .NET ILX. > > This doesn't mean that I want to necessarily defend them, > but this was the reason for their inclusion. Essentially, > SimonPJ was saying that to compile Haskell including "foreign > import ccall"s to .NET ILX, we need the library spec. > > I am not too fussed about .NET, so don't mind if we nuke the > [lib] specs (as Alastair already did in the CVS version of > the spec).
Under .NET each DLL has its own namespace, so the [lib] spec is needed to disambiguate. Since it's a namespace issue, I'd feel better if on .NET the name of the C function took a different form (perhaps <lib>.<function>) and [lib] is removed from the spec. BTW I didn't know the spec was in CVS somewhere... where exactly? Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ FFI mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ffi