On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 02:53:00PM -0500, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote: > I must say, this sort of reply is EXTREMELY DISTURBING.
Why are you shouting? I find your reply EXTREMELY UNHELPFUL. > It is ridiculous that one needs to get so intimate > with implementation issues just to read a file! Its quite easy to read a file, but it can be difficult to handle big files efficiently. Been there, done that, been satisfied with the results. > Is this inherent in Haskell or is it just that no > one has bothered to create a the Haskell > equivalent of BufferedReader? > <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/BufferedReader.html> Handles are buffered by default. It's not the case here. There are other factors involved (eg. laziness, ineffective file format). > And if so, is there something about Haskell that > makes a Haskell implementation of such a lib > difficult? Not really. Tom. -- .signature: Too many levels of symbolic links _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell