On 10/8/07, Henning Thielemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thus, what happens today? People ask Haskell-Cafe how to implement global > variables and they are advised to use IORefs and unsafePerformIO, although > the better answer is: "Why do you want to do this?" Even "Tackling the > awkward squad" considers unsafePerformIO an acceptable tool for handling > global configuration files.
One problem here is that the Haskell-style alternatives to global parameters aren't as convenient as to use. We should consider stealing Agda's module system for Haskell 2.0. -- Dave Menendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>
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