Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Re: Global Variables and =?utf-8?q?IO initializers?=

2004-11-08 Thread Keean Schupke
Yes I didn't read your specification accurately... However I would argue such a constraint on the problem domain is artificial as operating systems exist. At the end of the day it is the job of the OS to manage such one-shot hardware inits, not application code. (As the OS is the only thing that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Re: Global Variables and =?utf-8?q?IO initializers?=

2004-11-08 Thread Adrian Hey
On Monday 08 Nov 2004 6:48 pm, Keean Schupke wrote: > Adrian Hey wrote: > >The problem is simple enough to restate for anyone who's interested. > >"Provide a simple reliable mechanism to ensure that in a given > > program run one particular top level IO operation cannot be executed > > more than on