On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Niklas Hambüchen <m...@nh2.me> wrote:

> On 09/05/13 20:50, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> > ghci is in many ways like an endless (or at least until ":l"/":r")
> > do-block. In particular, the handle remains in scope after you run your
> > commands at the prompt, so it is not garbage collected.  If you enclose
> > it into its own do block, this introduces local scope and the handle
> > goes out of scope and is garbage collected at the end.
>
> I am not sure how the handle is relevant - I do not expect it to garbage
> collected before the close or rely on that, and my problem happens
> earlier already.
>

You said 'garbage in the handle'... but in any case it applies to all the
bindings, not just to that one. Generalize.

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