> So... you agree that getContents in its current form should really be > called unsafeGetContents? Unless perhaps we redefine its semantics to > either (a) yield a random string or (b) eagerly slurp the entire stream > contents?
Well, I'm not sure that the semantics of getContents is currently clearly defined and I'm not sure what the prefix `unsafe' really means. However, I don't want to continously disagree with you. unsafeGetContents would have been a better name. Olaf -- OLAF CHITIL, Dept. of Computer Science, The University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK. URL: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~olaf/ Tel: +44 1904 434756; Fax: +44 1904 432767 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe