9 Sep
2002
9 Sep
'02
4:12 p.m.
| No. A terminal device may echo or it may not. Even if the run-time | explicitly enables echoing, there is no guarantee that it won't | subsequently be disabled. | | Certainly, the existing statement is wrong, though. Well, the question is what the report should say. The minimal change is to delete the remark, but that's undesirable. If the report is silent on this question, the same interactive Haskell program could legitimately behave very differently in different impls, which seems undesirable. Suggestions welcome. (The old wording said "by default", if that helps.) Simon