[MLton-devel] [MLton-user] _ffi and Windows stdcall symbols

[Matthew Fluet]

> As to how we should
> indicate the attribute at the SML source level, I propose to allow a
> sequence of attributes after the name but before the colon, as in:
>
> 	_ffi "name" <attribute>*: <ty>;
> 	_export "name" <attribute>*: <ty>;

That seems fine.

> For now, the only thing their report has inspired me to do is to
> possibly change the syntax of _ffi and _export to be a little more
> uniform.  One possibility would be to rename them like
>
> 	_import "name" <attribute>*: <ty>;
> 	_export "name" <attribute>*: <ty>;

I like the above; I think it does make the syntax a little more uniform.

> Another, which follows the Haskell report, is to use a single _ffi
> keyword, as in:
>
> 	_ffi {import|export} "name" <attribute>*: <ty>;
>
> Any thoughts on this?

That's o.k. too, although I think I prefer the former.



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