leanprover / leanprover/reference-manual
FFI details for all basic types
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Description
What question should the reference manual answer?
How is each built-in type represented in the FFI? How can C code interact with the various kinds of Lean values?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue. Begin by locating the reference manual's existing FFI coverage and the relevant Lean and C representations, then define the built-in-type coverage and examples needed. Done means the manual explains how each built-in type is represented and how C code interacts with each kind of Lean value.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100