Re: Making argv a constant

[Simon L Peyton Jones]

Fergus

| I would find Simon's arguments more convincing if he showed
| a convenient idiom that did things properly, rather than a
| convenient way to write broken programs.
| 
| (Doing it properly is probably not too hard, but I'll leave it up to
| the proponents of this proposal to demonstrate this...)

It's hard for me to respond to this since I don't know what you have in mind
when you say "properly".  If you mean proper error reporting, then that's
not difficult:

        main = checkArgForErrors argv   >>
               ....rest of prog...

I'm not sure what else you had in mind.

Simon