Hi Bill > I am really talking about a module or perhaps a Haskell class that > provides notion for multiple threads of execution, semaphores, .. that > "hides" POSIX vs Win32 APIs .. i.e. the underlying OS APIs would be totally > hidden.
I think you are thinking in a "C" way. In Haskell, portable is the default. If you want to stop your code being portable, you have to go out of your way. Haskell is a much higher level language than others (such as C). Because the language is higher level, it tends to promote much higher level abstraction in the libraries - hiding platform idiosyncrasies in the process. > IMO if Haskell (or say OCaml) want > to be accepted by industry this kind of functionality is absolutely > critical. It is critical. Perhaps if C wants to be taken seriously it should provide portability, which has been present in Haskell since the beginning :-) Thanks Neil _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
