Re: Licenses and Libraries

[S. Alexander Jacobson]

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Erik Meijer wrote:
> > Whatever happened to the auto-import of java classes?
> 
> That's what I am supposed to be working on while Sigbjorn is enjoying
> the fjords. We have a nasty bug having to do with the (what we thought
> as) clever way of representing JNI objects in Haskell. There is an
> elegant solution using implicit arguments, but alas that is only
> supported by Hugs :-)

Last I heard (a while ago), there were issues with name mangling (to
handle java overloading semantics).

I suggested to Sigbjorn that MPTC would reduce name mangling to:
<class-name>_<method-name>_<method-arity>, but I was not sure whether the
HDirect spec mandated support of Haskell98.
Then I never heard back.

What are implicit arguments?  Do they mean that you can even avoid
explicityly specifying arity?  That would be elegant indeed!

-Alex-

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