On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:06:59 +0200 Nick Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In general, how does one implement a function like "getChanContents" > wich returns an infinite list? Tell me just some pointer to information > of course, I don't want an entire functional programming lesson :) See unsafeInterleaveIO: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/base/System.IO.Unsafe.html#unsafeInterleaveIO This is how getContents is implemented so that it reads the file lazily. It is "unsafe" in that it doesn't guarantee any particuar order of evaluation with respect to other IO operations. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
