Hello John,
Wednesday, July 5, 2006, 3:04:22 PM, you wrote:
> What I want to know is the generic way to force an entire String (or
> other list, perhaps from hGetContents) to be evaluated (read into RAM, I
> guess) so the underlying file can be closed and do it right now.
eval [] = []
eval (
I can always stumble upon things that work, but I'm never sure if I've
got 'em right. So, what is the idiomatic way to do this?
I think something like
> evaluate (rnf myString)
Evaluate is an action that forces the value to be evaluated. rnf (from
Control.Parallel.Strategies) is 'reduce to no
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 12:08 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > What I want to know is the generic way to force an entire String (or
> > other list, perhaps from hGetContents) to be evaluated (read into RAM, I
> > guess) so the underlying file can be closed and do it right now.
> What I ha
Hi,
What I want to know is the generic way to force an entire String (or
other list, perhaps from hGetContents) to be evaluated (read into RAM, I
guess) so the underlying file can be closed and do it right now.
What I have done in the past is to take the length of the string, and
test the l
Hi,
One thing that seems to keep biting me is strictness in do blocks.
What I want to know is the generic way to force an entire String (or
other list, perhaps from hGetContents) to be evaluated (read into RAM, I
guess) so the underlying file can be closed and do it right now.
One quick hack
