Re: Are handles closed automatically when they fall out of scope?

John Goerzen writes:

Now, if [I read with hGetContents h], then the first read I try to make using it works, but subsequent ones don't, since the first one made it half-closed already.

Maybe I misunderstood something ... but why do you need to read from the stream multiple times after calling hGetContents? The function returns the _entire_ (lazily evaluated) input stream, there is no need to read again. You already _have_ everything. Peter