Re: Request: withArrayLength

2004-03-23 Thread Adrian Hey
Hello, I'd like to second Svens second seconding of my request. In my original post saying that you often need the length rather understates the case I think. Occasions where you don't need the length seem to be quite rare (for me at least). Also, this function may enable more space efficient

Re: Request: withArrayLength

2004-03-23 Thread Adrian Hey
On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 12:51 am, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: We might want to accumulate extra useful functions in the implementation in an *extra* module and once there is enough interesting functionality in there, we can start talking about Version 1.1 of the Addendum. Does this sound

RE: Request: withArrayLength

2004-03-23 Thread Simon Marlow
I think we need to decide how the further development of the FFI will proceed. Given that Version 1.0 of the Addendum is frozen, I am not in favour of changing the Addendum anytime soon and certainly not for small matters, such as a convenience function. We might want to accumulate