RE: GHC Select and Time modules - struct timeval

[Sigbjorn Finne]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
> Thu, 2 Dec 1999 06:15:19 -0800, Simon Peyton-Jones 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:
> 
> > Indeed.  But it is true to say that Select.select's timeout
> > parameter could usefully be generalised to either an Integer or
> > a TimeVal (i.e. (sec,usec) pair).  Since this library isn't
> > an H98 standard, it might be worth just doing this, no?
> 
> I vote for Integer as opposed to (sec,usec). I guess that C uses two
> longs because it did not have a longer type, but we do have a longer
> type, so why not use it? I really can't think about a reason to use
> (sec,usec)...
> 

Uhm, because you have to interface to a C function that takes (sec,usec)?
i.e., the extra range you get from using Integer is useless.

--sigbjorn