Sigbjorn Finne, you wrote:
>
> > It certainly has its advantages, but I must say that I'm leaning
> > in the Haskell direction now. Having the arguments and the environment
> > (and why not standard input, and maybe all the files in the file system?)
> > as global constants means that your program has dependencies on the
> > outside world that are not clearly visible in the program. It goes
> > against the grain of pure functional programming.
>
> But 1.3 already does this, stdin,stdout&stderr are global handle
> constants - so why not do it for something that *really* is constant?
There's a difference between the handle and its contents.
stdin etc. really are constant, it is just their contents (the
stuff you get if you read from that handle) that may vary.
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