27 Aug
2008
27 Aug
'08
7:42 a.m.
Lennart Augustsson wrote:
BTW, I'm not contradicting that the use of global variables can be necessary when interfacing with legacy code, I just don't think it's the right design when doing something new.
AFAICS the use of top level mutable state in the base libs has nothing at all to do with interfacing with legacy code, it's a semantic necessity and there's no legacy code involved. If you want to dispute that then please show some real Haskell code that does as good or better job without it (or point me too the relevant legacy code that makes it necessary). Regards -- Adrian Hey