Re: Dealing with configuration data

Koen,

getConfig :: Configuration getConfig = unsafePerformIO $ do ...read configuration from file... return configuration

(*) Actually, a Haskell compiler is free to inline these kind of expressions, so really one has to give a NOINLINE pragma to the compiler as well.

I'd always avoided this type of thing precisely because of the inline issue, which I don't think my version is in danger of. That's just me, though :).