On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:46:47PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > I liked the original idea. I'm not sure if I agree with the argument > that allowing fully-fledged IO actions in the initialisation of a module > is unsafe. I agree that it is a little opaque, in the sense that one > can't easily tell whether a particular init action is going to run or > not.
Allowing IO actions in the initialization of a module then requires the ability to determine what order these initializations happen in. Ocaml does this, and it requires that all modules be specified in a proper order to the compiler. Dave _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
