| Simon doesn't want to make changes to Haskell. My opinion is | that the current definition of readFile and hGetContents is | fine. They are useful when used with a bit of care. Some | remarks should make the reader of the report aware of the | caveats. (I'm not saying that I couldn't imagine some useful | additional functions for lazy reading and writing.) That's exactly what I think. The current IO libraries are far from perfect, but what I want to do in the H98 Report is simply to document clearly what they do and don't do. Improving them is a job for the Libraries group, and I hope we'll take up the challenge. Simon