On 24 November 2004 11:10, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

George Russell wrote:

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I think their disadvantages are overstated. Glasgow Haskell uses them lots,

And I bet the implementors wish they hadn't used them as much. ;)

Bingo. Not to say I universally dissaprove of top-level variables, but GHC does overuse them a little. Cheers, Simon