Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:42:29 +0100, George Russell
What I want instead is a function which (a) opens the file; (b) slurps the complete contents compactly into an array; (c) closes the file; (d) makes the contents of the array available as a String.
Applying foldr (\_ t -> t) (return ()) to the string (and executing this application as an IO action) will force it to be read completely. If it came from readFile, the file gets closed as soon as the string is evaluated up to its end.
It all is a bit of a mystery to me how you are supposed to use Addr like things without space leaks. A little more explanation in the documentation would not perhaps be amiss . . .
Unfortunately the design of these areas (conversion between Haskell strings and C strings) is not yet complete. And Unicode in Haskell strings (already implemented in GHC development versions) will make the library more complex. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk * qrczak@knm.org.pl http://qrczak.ids.net.pl/ \__/ ^^ SYGNATURA ZASTÊPCZA QRCZAK