On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 02:53:00PM -0500, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
I must say, this sort of reply is EXTREMELY DISTURBING.
Why are you shouting? I find your reply EXTREMELY UNHELPFUL.
It is ridiculous that one needs to get so intimate with implementation issues just to read a file!
Its quite easy to read a file, but it can be difficult to handle big files efficiently. Been there, done that, been satisfied with the results.
Is this inherent in Haskell or is it just that no one has bothered to create a the Haskell equivalent of BufferedReader? <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/BufferedReader.html>
Handles are buffered by default. It's not the case here. There are other factors involved (eg. laziness, ineffective file format).
And if so, is there something about Haskell that makes a Haskell implementation of such a lib difficult?
Not really. Tom. -- .signature: Too many levels of symbolic links