Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: What Functions are Standard?

John Goerzen writes:

On 2004-10-06, Glynn Clements wrote:

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I can't comment on nhc98, but the Haskell98 standard doesn't include any mechanism for binary I/O.

Ouch. That seems like a major oversight to me. Will there be any effort to fix that in the future?

Note that, on Unix-like systems, there is no difference between text I/O and binary I/O on files. It is only Windows that requires a separation of the modes. As to fixing the Haskell standard - well, the base hierarchical libraries are a de facto "corrected" set of libraries. It is just that not all compilers have yet caught up with them. Regards, Malcolm