Benjamin Franksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> stdin = makeHandle 0
>> stdout = makeHandle 1
>> stderr = makeHandle 2
>>
>> in absolutely pure Haskell, only the things that manipulate them need
>> be in the IO monad.
>
> If they were simple wrappers around the integers, you'd be right and I
> couldn't rightfully object to them being top-level values.
They generally have buffers. And stdin remembers when it has been
closed and refuses to be read further.
--
__("< Marcin Kowalczyk
\__/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/
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