27 Nov
2000
27 Nov
'00
10:56 a.m.
On Mon 27 Nov, Fergus Henderson wrote:
Do you think that Haskell would be better without `unsafePerformIO'?
Well, a sceptic like me is bound to wonder why such a non-function is provided in a purely functional language. What really worries me is that the damage isn't localised. If you allow such things you can never be sure that any function really is a function, without careful scrutiny of all the code it's dependent on.
This has lead C# to copy some of Java's other flaws, such as the awful array type.
What is wrong with Java and C# arrays? (I have never used either). Regards -- Adrian Hey