Excerpts from Simon Marlow's message of Mon Sep 21 11:41:38 +0200 2009: > On 16/09/2009 21:17, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Are there any plans to get rid of hGetContents and the semi-closed > > handle state for Haskell Prime? > > > > (I call hGetContents unsafe because it adds side effects to pattern > > matching, stricly speaking invalidating most of the transformations > > which are expected to be valid in a pure language.) > > There is no current proposal for this, no. Feel free to start one; > information about the process for Haskell Prime proposals is here > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/Process
An alternate proposition (instead of removing it) would to to move it to System.IO.Unsafe. -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime