G'day all. On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:54:26PM -0600, Jon Cast wrote:
> Otherwise, though, see my other post on this subject: unsafePerformIO > will perform its action when the variable is accessed, so you can't > write a Haskell program which differentiates between what any compiler > actually does and running the variable allocations before main. As has been pointed out, there is no language requirement for a Haskell implementation to be "fully lazy". In particular, it is technically possible for an implementation to garbage collect globalVar and re-evaluate it on the next call. Haskell 2 should probably have a pragma controlling this. Cheers, Andrew Bromage _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe