That is, really erase the argument position rather than just putting
'erased there. It doesn't make a huge difference to the generated scheme
performance, but since we can always do this for constructors, we might
as well.
Functions can be declared as %foreign with a list of calling
conventions, which a backend will work through until it finds one it can
understand. Currently implemented only in Chez backend. If this works
out, I'll implement it for Racket too, and remove the old primitive
functions.
There's a bit more boiler plate here than before, but it has the benefit
of being more extensible and portable between different back ends.
Some examples, pending proper documentation:
%foreign "C:puts,libc" "scheme:display"
putline : String -> PrimIO ()
%foreign "C:exp, libm.so.6, math.h"
fexp : Double -> Double
%foreign "C:initscr, ncurses_glue.so, ncurses.h"
prim_initscr : PrimIO ()
Need to set up nested names appropriately for the with function so that
the environment gets passed through correctly, and use abstractEnvType
to get the type of the with function rather than simply binding the
environment as is.