Job Vranish <jvran...@gmail.com> writes:

> I am well aware of the usual ST/IORefs as the usual solutions to data 
> mutability in haskell.
> I very very much understand purity, and why it is a good thing, and why we 
> should try to stay away from IO and ST as much
> as possible.
> I am very much away that even if I had such a function that it will probably 
> break everything.
> I am not just trying to make things run faster.

> What I am trying to do is hyper unusual and I really do need an 
> unsafeHorribleThings to do it.

Well, is purpose of this a big secret?  Maybe if you describe the whole
direction of such efforts, somebody could propose better solution that
satisfies your needs.

I recommend you to describe semantics of unsafeHorribleThings in
details, and in what exact cases this could be useful.
_______________________________________________
Haskell-Cafe mailing list
Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Reply via email to