RE: Haskell 98: Behaviour of hClose

18 Sep 2002

      Ahem how true.  I have not idea why it was removed.  But I can't put
anything back in at this stage.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Malcolm Wallace [mailto:Malcolm.Wallace@cs.york.ac.uk]
| Sent: 18 September 2002 10:04
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Cc: haskell@haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Haskell 98: Behaviour of hClose
| 
| "Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj@microsoft.com> writes:
| 
| > (You can change echoing settings via the IO.hSetEcho etc.)
| 
| Ahem, one of the deficiencies of Haskell'98 is that there is no
function
| IO.hSetEcho.  There used to be one in Haskell 1.3 I think, so I guess
there
| was a good reason for removing it?
| 
| Regards,
|     Malcolm