On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Henning Thielemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think the problem is that readFile style routines are not modular > enough. We need open/getContent/close style routines and sadly, > composition of them is error-prone. You can easily close a file and try to > read data from it afterwards. Maybe continuation style functions (like > withCString) are better, but it is still possible to access closed files. > It would be very nice if these problems could be solved, since the interim > lazy processing is very elegant, and also useful for feedback.
This is one of the things I really like about Iteratees. They are composable. I originally tried to use a withFile function, but composing those, so that one process will read from multiple files, is not really a modular process. _______________________________________________ haskell-art mailing list haskell-art@lurk.org http://lists.lurk.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-art
