On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fisc...@web.de> wrote: > ... > It evaluates the String far enough to know whether it's "" or (_:_), that is, > to weak head > normal form. It doesn't look at any character, but it forces at least one > character to be > read from the file.
Yep, the head. That explains why only the first 1024 bytes are read and displayed... Cristiano _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe