Re: [Caml-list] Easier FFI

[Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>]

On Friday 21 December 2007 03:37, Dave Benjamin wrote:
> I would love something like this. I've used "ctypes", a similar library
> for Python, a few times, and it has really come in handy. Not something
> I want to use often (at least not directly), but for those times when
> use of an unsupported C library is necessary, it's so nice to have the
> ability to stay within the language rather than writing a bunch of
> wrapper code. I wonder if something like ctypes would translate well to
> a statically typed language like OCaml.
>
> http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/

Absolutely, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. Basically just 
a glorified C interpreter as a fallback to make unsafe interop as easy as 
possible.

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