On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Robert Dockins wrote:
On Friday 01 September 2006 16:46, Duncan Coutts wrote: ...
Note also, that with lazy IO we can write really short programs that are blindingly quick. Lazy IO allows us to save a copy through the Handle buffer.
(Never understood why some people think it would be such a good thing to be blinded, but as long as it's you and not me ... )
BTW in the above case the "bad thing that will happen" is that contents will be truncated. As I said, I think it's better to throw an exception, which is what Data.ByteString.Lazy.hGetContents does.
Well, AFAIK, the behavior is officially undefined, which is my real beef. I agree that it _should_ throw an exception.
Is this about Microsoft Windows? On UNIX, I would expect deletion of a file to have no effect on I/O of any kind on that file. I thought the problems with hGetContents more commonly involve operations on the file handle, e.g., hClose. Donn Cave, donn@drizzle.com