From 06928fccf543143bfacb0569297bef5d8184e58f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Louis Pilfold <louis@lpil.uk>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 22:41:25 +0000
Subject: Foreign -> Any

Closes https://github.com/lpil/gleam/issues/21
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 src/any.gleam | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/any.gleam

(limited to 'src/any.gleam')

diff --git a/src/any.gleam b/src/any.gleam
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/src/any.gleam
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+doc """
+`Any` data is data that we don't know the type of yet.
+We likely get data like this from interop with Erlang, or from
+IO with the outside world.
+"""
+pub external type Any
+;
+
+doc """
+Convert any Gleam data into `Any` data.
+"""
+pub external fn new(a) -> Any = 'gleam_foreign' 'identity'
+
+doc """
+Unsafely cast any type into any other type.o
+
+This is an escape hatch for the type system that may be useful when wrapping
+native Erlang APIs. It is to be used as a last measure only.
+"""
+pub external fn unsafeCoerce(a) -> b = 'gleam_foreign' 'identity'
+
+fn identity(x) {
+  x
+}
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