Re: Haskell 98: Behaviour of hClose

Ross Paterson <ross@soi.city.ac.uk> writes:

So I favour deletion of the offending sentence, leaving this as an environment-dependency.

I second that. I came to Haskell after many other programming languages, and was VERY surprised by echo behaviour. I vote for consistency with long-standing standards (C library, every other language) and versatility (echo and buffering determined by environment -- it should be configured to also run non-Haskell programs, after all). Feri.