On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:12:44 -0000, Simon Marlow
Not a problem. Have you looked at the streams proposal?
I've missed most of the discussion on this, so if someone could just clarify the reasons for a few things I find peculiar: * Prefixing function names with their types, not necessary with qualified imports. * Why not put isEOS in the InputStream class since it doesn't make sense for OutputStreams? * Why not introduce an additional class BufferedStream containing the the Buffering-functions (instead of having them in Stream and resorting to weird failure-patterns for non-buffered streams): setBufferMode :: s -> BufferMode -> IO () getBufferMode :: s -> IO BufferMode flush :: s -> IO () sync :: s -> IO Bool Where setBufferMode is not allowed to "fail" (by returning False). If for some reason it does fail an exception is thrown. Same thing with getBufferMode. It will return a Buffering or throw an exception (not return "NoBuffering" instead of a failure). /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862