[m-rev.] for review: merge foreign_type pragma on to the main branch

[Fergus Henderson]

On 23-Oct-2001, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> For the reference, section 7.2 of Parition II states that CLI builtin
> value types (is the reference here to value types a bug in the spec as
> System.String and System.Object are builtin types but not value types?)
> shall only be referenced in signatures by their special encodings.  See
> Parition I section 8.2.2 for the list of all the builtin types which
> includes object and string.

When citing standards that are under active development, please also
give the section titles, rather than just the section numbers,
because the section numbers are subject to change in later drafts.

In particular 8.2.2 is now 7.2.2 in the Oct 01 draft.  Fortunately in
this case it relatively easy to figure out which section you meant.

Regarding your question about the reference to "value types",
it does look to me like a bug in the spec.

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