> "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.
It is nice, but it introduces too many problems. What happens to any
I/O errors encountered by the lazy I/O? They have to be discarded,
which means you can't effectively use lazy I/O for robust applications
anyway.
Cheers,
Simon
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