
24 Feb
2010
24 Feb
'10
10:52 p.m.
On Feb 24, 2010, at 16:17 , Fabian Roth wrote:
Using UnsafeIO, however, leaves a creepy unsafe feeling... I don't fully understand though why it is unsafe. Doesn't hGetContents do the exact same thing (i.e. reading from IO returning a lazy string) but does not require UnsafeIO.
It does; it's just hidden *inside* hGetContents where you can't see it. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH