Hello Chris, Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 8:46:47 PM, you wrote:
1. Is there a way to write an immutable array to a handle without using any unsafe methods?
If you mean "can I treat the array as a large block of bytes as dump that to a handle?" then you need Data.Array.IO.hPutArray and hGetArray. Or possibly Data.Array.Storable with Foreign.Marshal.Array might help.
and unboxed arrays, of course
2. Why does the function 'getBounds' (of the 'MArray' class) return its result in a monad?
It is so that mutable arrays which dynamically change their bounds can be supported.
arrayref library contains implementation of dynamic arrays that can be easily ported to using Base library primitives -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com