(Moving to haskell cafe...) On 18-Feb-2001 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:
It is even acceptable for me to manage the state in C - independent of the API design - but then some time there will be the question: Why do I always say that that Haskell is the better programming language, when I'm really doing all the tricky stuff in C?...
Sure - therefore, I proposed to use `IORef's rather than C routines.
Thanks for the hint! I took a look at them and now have some questions: a) It is clear that I need some C-link to access the cli/odbc lib. Up to now I planned to use Haskell Direct for this. Except of this, I want to stick to Haskell 98 and seek for maximal portability. Practically, this raises the question of wether nhc and hbc support hslibs or else I can provide a substitute for IORef's for these compilers. Can someone give me hint? b) What I finally need is "hidden state". My first attempt to get one using IORefs is:
import IOExts
state :: IORef Int state = unsafePerformIO $ newIORef 0
main = seq state $ do writeIORef state 1 currstate <- readIORef state putStr (show currstate)
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