Re: [Haskell-cafe] Current situation regarding global IORefs

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

And yes, somewhere there's some global mutable state in the OS. I've never claimed that it should be totally forbidden. Various circumstances forces it upon us. What I've been claiming is that it should be avoided where possible. Which is almost always.

The strict object-capability style of programming makes this a strict rule to prevent capabilities from leaking. http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/ Tony. -- f.a.n.finch http://dotat.at/ VIKING NORTH UTSIRE SOUTH UTSIRE: SOUTH 7 OR GALE 8, OCCASIONALLY SEVERE GALE 9 IN VIKING AND NORTH UTSIRE, DECREASING 5 OR 6, THEN VEERING SOUTHWEST 6 OR 7 IN VIKING. RAIN AT TIMES. MODERATE OR GOOD.