[m-dev.] Foreign type compare and unification

[Fergus Henderson]

On 10-May-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> I have been thinking about treating foreign types like the c_pointer type
> for their RTTI and comparision and unification predicates, ie a foreign type
> in the compiler will be treated as if it was an equivalence type where the
> RHS of the equivalence is c_pointer.

That seems reasonable.
After all c_pointer is really just the old way of defining foreign types.

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