"Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One reason, I think, is lazy I/O(*). It's to stop you accidentally
[...] > (*) kill it! die! die! So you want main = readFile "/dev/zero" >> return () to terminate violantly rather than terminate peacefully? :) Seriously, I understand that the IO monad is the most intuitive and robust when it is strict. But sometimes it is also nice if one could map a file to a lazy string. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
