"Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > > Manuel M T Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > -=- Changes since RC 9 > > > > > > * 6.2: All the types in CTypes must be newtypes that are exported > > > abstractly. > > > > This change makes things highly inconvenient in nhc98. A newtype > > can only be passed across the FFI in nhc98 if we have enough > > information to determine the original type that is being renamed. > > If Foreign.C.Types exports them abstractly, then currently we do not > > have that information, and so these types cannot be used at all! > > > > I am not suggesting that the newtype constructors should necessarily > > be part of the API seen by the user, but the problem comes down to a > > known deficiency in nhc98's interface file conventions. > > How about exporting them non-abstractly for nhc98 only, and adding a > comment to explain why the workaround is necessary?
That's what I prefer, too. Manuel _______________________________________________ FFI mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ffi