On 15/05/2011 11:22 AM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> I'm fairly sure I posted one in the other group a while back. Heck, I
>> even got qsort() from stdlib.h to work arbitrary Haskell data types,
>> just because Warp said it wasn't possible.
>
>    While calling C's qsort() from Haskell is impressive, you still failed
> to demonstrate the next challenge, which was to properly handle C bitfields.

I thought the next level was setjmp()?

> So there's still potentially something that Haskell cannot do with C... :P

If it's really that hard, ask C to do it, and call C from Haskell.

For that matter, C can't access [non-trivial] Haskell data either. If 
your C program wants to, say, access the 7th element of a Haskell list, 
it has to call Haskell and ask Haskell to fetch it and return something 
simple enough for C to comprehend. (The 7th element might not *exist* 
yet, for example...)

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