GHC certain *could* do this, but it's arguably not the right thing to do. For performance, the operating system buffers writes until it is ready to write large chunks at a time. If you do not want this behavior, change the buffering mode from its default.
- Phil On Feb 8, 2008 5:07 PM, Jonathan Cast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8 Feb 2008, at 4:50 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > > > > On Feb 8, 2008, at 19:41 , Philip Weaver wrote: > > > >> Your "gsi> " is buffered because there's no newline at the end. > >> To flush the buffer and force it to be printed immediately, use > >> 'hFlush' from the System.IO library, or use 'hSetBuffering' from > >> that same library: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/ > >> libraries/base/System-IO.html > >> > >> I believe you can observe the same behavior in C. > > > > Most C stdio libraries in my experience have extra code in the > > functions that read stdin to flush stdout first, specifically > > because of lazy people who don't pay attention to buffering. > > Why can't GHC implement the same thing? > > jcc > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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