Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Roman,
Friday, February 1, 2008, 11:03:36 AM, you wrote:
the right way to deal with "modifiers" is to attach them to the Handle itself like this:
f <- openFile "name" >>= withLocking >>= withEncoding utf8
IMO, global state is never "the right way" if it can be avoided. It will always lead to problems. Especially in a functional language like Haskell.
so you propose something like this:
s <- readString "/path/filename" TextMode "utf8" line_num
No. In my view, file handles and encodings exist on completely different levels of abstraction. The former are (or ought to be) simply an interface to the underlying OS capabilities. The latter would be part of a high-level I/O library which shouldn't even have the concept of a handle (and should use typed I/O). Also, it doesn't always make sense to associate an encoding with an entire file. For instance, a Russian-Greek dictionary might use ISO 8859-5 for Russian words and ISO 8859-7 for Greek ones. Roman