Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Default stdout buffering of child process of createProcess

Brandon Allbery:

On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Doug McIlroy mailto:doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

Because the effects of buffering are not transparent, it would be wise to make it an optional optimization, not a default.

It's not just efficiency, it's also behaving compatibility with other implementations. Or were you going to argue this with e.g. the ANSI C committee too?

I admit that I didn't follow this thread, so I might have skipped something, but ... Is Brandon Albery suggesting that Haskell should progress in the direction that makes it as compatible as possible with ANSI C? Jerzy Karczmarczuk