On 17 December 2004 16:49, John Goerzen wrote:
First, if someone were to make a working, useful package out of this,
is it likely that it would become the standard (whatever that
means) IO system in Haskell anytime in the near future? I ask
because I don't want to put a lot of time into
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:09:34AM +, Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:
Given this background you can probably guess that I'm not too keen on
the traditional open/read/write/seek/close model; I don't think it's a
good abstraction for anything, even files. I love the idea of gzip and
gunzip as
What about Peter Simons' BlockIO library? Its very fast and has a reasonably
simple interface.
Keean.
Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:
John Goerzen wrote:
My proposal is here:
http://www.complete.org/~jgoerzen/t/MissingH.IO.HVIO.html
I'm aware that others have been working on IO proposals;
Thank you, Ben, Simon PJ, Simon M, David, and the others that sent such
helpful responses.
It seems that there is rough consensus that Ben/SimonM's ideas are the
right way forward. Obviously these ideas represent a significant shift
from the way things are now. I spent some time looking over
At Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:48:34 -0600,
John Goerzen wrote:
First, if someone were to make a working, useful package out of this, is
it likely that it would become the standard (whatever that means) IO
system in Haskell anytime in the near future? I ask because I don't
want to put a lot of time
John Goerzen wrote:
My proposal is here:
http://www.complete.org/~jgoerzen/t/MissingH.IO.HVIO.html
I'm aware that others have been working on IO proposals; specifically,
Simon Marlow's here:
http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/io/System.IO.html
The proposal on Simon M's page was originally my
