Keean Schupke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Surely both requirements can be satisfied if the programs arguments are made
> parameters of main:
>
> main :: [String] -> IO ()
>From info '(libc)Error Messages', about program_invocation_name
and program_invocation_short_name:
*Portability Note:* These two variables are GNU extensions. If you
want your program to work with non-GNU libraries, you must save the
value of `argv[0]' in `main', and then strip off the directory names
yourself. We added these extensions to make it possible to write
self-contained error-reporting subroutines that require no explicit
cooperation from `main'.
This suggests that making global parameters available only as
arguments of main would be a bad idea. But they should be settable,
to account for the rare case of wanting to substitute something else
to a library which reads them itself.
--
__("< Marcin Kowalczyk
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