Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Execution of external command

Hello Jules, Friday, December 14, 2007, 12:21:30 PM, you wrote:

PS we could give it a nice sensible name like hGetContents. We could renaming the existing hGetContents to hUnsafeGetContentsDontUseThisUnlessYouHaveSpentThreeMonthsLearningGHCsExecutionSemanticsOrYouWillRegretIt

i have more advanced proposal - we should include in its name whole paper on its semantics so anyone using it will be clearly warned. moreover, any suggestion to use this function will automatically include exact description of its caveats that is again The Right Thing To Do :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com