On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:29:54PM -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote: > > I've > > got a Haskell book here (Hutton, 170 pages) that doesn't even mention > > how to open a file! > > That short, and you expect minor features like that (that not every > program even needs) to be squeezed in?
Uh... yes. Opening and closing files, command-line parsing, etc -- needed by almost every program. Aside from some very simple stdin-to-stdout filters, it is difficult to imagine a program where you don't need to open a file! _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
