On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:17:20AM -0400, Robert Dockins wrote: > There is a hashtable in the IO monad: > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data.HashTable.html
Why is it in IO instead of the more general ST? IMHO _all_ mutable data structures should be written for ST (or a generalization thereof), since one can always use stToIO if operation in the IO monad is really required. Lauri Alanko [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users