[Haskell-cafe] Re: Global Variables and IO initializers

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Keean Schupke wrote:

For 'broken' libraries that cannot support multiple simultaneous contexts, it would be better to use the 'C' FFI based solution suggested by another poster. Ideally you would want to find a library with a better interface - If you tell me the library you wish to use I may be able to suggest a better alternative.

Really? That also interests me. I'm using FFTW and PLPlot (but not with Haskell), both uses internal states and thus must be considered as ill designed. Do you know of better alternatives?