Jan Skibinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:
>
> > That's interesting, indeed. I am also close to finishing
> > the first version of a tool that simplifies Haskell access
> > to C libraries by extracting interface information from C
> > headers. Actually, I have just completed the draft of a
> > paper about the tool that I plan to present at IFL'99 next
> > month:
> >
> > ``C -> Haskell, or Yet Another Interfacing Tool''
> > http://www.score.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~chak/papers/Cha99b.html
>
> It would be nice having it supported by Hugs as well.
I'll happily support every Haskell system that provides a
functionality similar to
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/hdirect/ffi.html
As I wrote in the paper: It is about time that Haskell gets
a standardised foreign function interface. And GHC's new
FFI is a very nice design (it is actually quite close to
Hugs `primitive' feature).
Manuel
