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