31 Jan
2008
31 Jan
'08
10:28 a.m.
On 31 Jan 2008, at 1:23 AM, Reinier Lamers wrote:
Bayley, Alistair wrote:
More than one person has posted previously about the flaws and traps of lazy IO. A common position seems to be "don't do lazy IO".
Still, when I was browsing the Haskell' wiki a few days ago, I couldn't find any proposal to remove lazy I/O or move it into some special System.IO.Lazy (or System.IO.UnsafeEvilFunctionsThatSacrificeBabies) ...
Sacrificing babies is not a unique characteristic of lazy IO, of course; it's true of any file IO on a non-versioning file system. jcc