[cc'ing HPrime] Isaac Dupree wrote:
The unsafePerformIO hack being used is not very satisfactory given how many optimizations make it difficult to use safely in practice. This hack is also used many places. I would be happier if that situation were not true, and I suspect there's something like a consensus on _that_. (maybe not as strong as "_needs_ a solution" in the short-to-mid term future)
Considering the value that the Haskell community normally places on sound semantics, reliance on such an appalling hack seems pretty bad to me. If a solution doesn't find it's way into H' then how many more years is it going to be with us? It's just embarrassing :-) Also, I don't know if the OP was a noob, but telling people (especially noobs) that if they can't figure out how to solve a problem without using a "global variable" then that must be down to inexperience and general cluelessness on their part just seems wrong to me. It simply isn't true. (Anyone who disagrees with this should feel free to submit the patches needed to fix up the base package :-) Regards -- Adrian Hey _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
