On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johan Tibell wrote: >> You probably knew this already but there's nothing in the "with idiom" >> that prevents the resource to escape. > > And, it doesn't always matter. Some withs are more unsafe that others :) > > if the 'with' constructs a nice ordinary heap allocated haskell structure > from the external resource then it may not matter one jot if it escapes: it > may be out-of-date, perhaps, but still a useful data value.
I'm sure you're right but at the moment I can't really think of any such structure. Perhaps you could give an example? Why would you need the "with" in the first place for such a structure? Cheers, Johan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
