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The Hugs-GHC Extension Libraries

The Hugs/GHC Team

August 1998

Hugs and GHC provide a common set of libraries to aid portability. This document specifies the interfaces to these libraries and documents known differences.

1. Naming conventions

2. Addr

3. Foreign

4. Bits

5. Concurrent

6. Dynamic

6.1 Representing types
6.2 The Typeable class
6.3 Utility functions

7. Exception

7.1 Dynamic Exceptions

8. GetOpt

9. IOExts

10. Int

11. LazyST

12. NumExts

13. Pretty

14. ST

15. Weak

15.1 Module Signature
15.2 Weak pointers
15.3 The simple interface
15.4 The general interface
15.5 A precise semantics
15.6 Finalisation for foreign objects

16. Word

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