I'm not an expert in Win32 programming, but I don't think that conversions between these three types are so pervasive (and without consequence) as to necessitate using synonyms here rather than something which protects the programmer a little more. If this is required, it would be great to document the declarations with this information, if not then perhaps there could be a major version update replacing the synonyms.
The same thing could probably be said for any of the other type synonyms of HANDLE in Win32.
I was surprised to find that these aren't the definitions for
HWNDandHANDLEnewtype HWND = HWND { unsafeHWNDToHANDLE :: HANDLE }newtype HANDLE = HANDLE { unsafeHANDLEToPtr :: Ptr () }I'm not an expert in Win32 programming, but I don't think that conversions between these three types are so pervasive (and without consequence) as to necessitate using synonyms here rather than something which protects the programmer a little more. If this is required, it would be great to document the declarations with this information, if not then perhaps there could be a major version update replacing the synonyms.
The same thing could probably be said for any of the other type synonyms of
HANDLEinWin32.