9 May
2003
9 May
'03
10:30 a.m.
Simon Marlow writes:
What do people think?
I think it is a good idea to provide the POSIX functions 'popen' and 'system', simply because people _know_ them. When I tried to figure out how to start sub-processes in Haskell, I looked for these functions first of all, too. So far, 'launch' seems to be the most useful one, though, so I'd definitely like to see it (or something similar) in GHC's standard library. Plus: One could easily implement 'popen' and 'system' on top of it. Peter