Reasonable suggstion, but I think it's too late to add new functionality. (Apart from anything else, we'd have to get into whether it could be implemented portable on all platforms. And H98 is really very stable now.)
But we'll add it to the new IO libraries that are coming up for GHC/Hugs/nhc. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Ashley Yakeley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: 06 January 2002 06:02 | To: Haskell List | Subject: Library Report Omission | | | I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before... | | Module IO (sec. 11.4) is missing hSetFileSize. | | hSetFileSize :: Handle�->�Integer -> IO () | | Or is this too big a change for the report at this stage? Without it | there's no way to shorten a file without deleting it and | rewriting it. | Very annoying... | | -- | Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA | | | _______________________________________________ | Haskell mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell | _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
