5 Jun
2007
5 Jun
'07
5:49 a.m.
Ashley Yakeley wrote:
Can we move the other unsafe stuff into the Unsafe.* hierarchy?
It's not clear to me that Unsafe.System.IO would be better than System.IO.Unsafe. What is the primary purpose of unsafePerformIO - to do IO, or to be unsafe? I see the point - to clearly separate all the unsafe stuff - but there are other categories of things that we might also want to separate (e.g. Haskell 98 vs. non-Haskell 98, portable vs. non-portable, deprecated vs. current...). We made the decision a long time ago that the hierarchy should categorise by functionality rather than any other property of modules. There are exceptions (System.Posix), but it's still a good rule of thumb. Cheers, Simon