13 Aug
2001
13 Aug
'01
8:30 p.m.
Simon Marlow
- A separate type and API for each kind of handle, defining only the operations available on that handle. Operations which several types of handle share are unified using classes.
This thread is revisiting discussion from the Haskell 1.3 IO library design - it might be useful to bring in some of the people involved in that (i.e., Kevin Hammond or Andy Gordin). The one bit of that that I do remember is that the Handle type was explicitly intended to cover a wide range of I/O devices not just files. After all, if it was only meant to do files, it'd be called "File" not "Handle". -- Alastair Reid reid@cs.utah.edu http://www.cs.utah.edu/~reid/