Re: hGetChar considered harmful

[Richard]

Marcin Kowalczyk writes:
>Sun, 23 Jul 2000 19:38:39 -0700 (PDT), Richard Uhtenwoldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:
>
>> but it would be nice for a small program fragment be able to loop over
>> the contents of an input file without resorting to "catch", which is
>> more awkard than most constructs.  that is easy to achieve: we
>> introduce a new primitive, hGetCharMaybe,
>
>Why primitive?

good point.