On 10/10/2009 18:59, Iavor Diatchki wrote:
Hello,
well, I think that the fact that we seem to have a program context
that can distinguish f1 from f2 is worth discussing because I
would have thought that in a pure language they are interchangable.
The question is, does the context in Oleg's
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 13:58 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
Duncan has found a definition of hGetContents that explains why it has
surprising behaviour, and that's very nice because it lets us write the
compilers that we want to write, and we get to tell the users to stop
moaning because the
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 15:45 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
I've not yet seen anyone put forward any practical programs that have
confusing behaviour but were not written deliberately to be as wacky as
possible and avoid all the safety mechanism.
The standard use case for hGetContents is
