On the one hand, in the standard libraries there are functions like
readFile, getContents, hGetContents which read a file lazily. This is
often a nice feature, but sometimes lead to unexpected results, say when
reading a file and overwriting it with modified contents. Unfortunately
the standard libraries provide no functions for strict reading, and one
has to do this manually.
On the other hand, when I write some IO function that returns a String, I
easily end up with a function which produces the String in a strict way.
(Say I call some shell commands and concatenate their outputs.)
What is the preferred way to turn a strict (IO String) into a lazy one?
forkIO? forkOS? How would one derive readFile from a hypothetical
strictReadFile?
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