On Monday 08 Nov 2004 12:23 pm, Lennart Augustsson wrote: > Adrian Hey wrote: > > 4- They already exist (stdin,stout,stderr) and I don't > > recall anybody ever complaining about this. > > stdin, stdout, and stderr are not global variables. > They are just handles.
Isn't an IORef just a "handle" for a mutable variable? They are all top-level TWI's, and I don't see why one form should be regarded as completely acceptable while another should be avoided at all costs. And I don't understand the relevance of your argument about the IO monad. I hope you don't think anybody is suggesting that reading and writing IORefs outside of the IO Monad should be allowed. That is not what this thread is about. Regards -- Adrian Hey _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
