4 Jan
2017
4 Jan
'17
2:19 a.m.
2017-01-04 4:59 GMT+01:00 David Menendez
Do a lot of hobbyists use read? I’m honestly curious: I keep being told that Read is only useful for parsing the output of Show, but I can’t imagine that comes up a lot. I guess I could see being useful for minimal-effort persistence, but parsers with no capacity for error messages make me uncomfortable.
I believe that read is often used in Project Euler-style problems and programming challenges in order to parse numbers from input files.