On 26 Sep 2002, Yoann Padioleau wrote: > Koen Claessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i find your idea very good. > indeed for the library GetOpt, the argument of a program never change so it > make sense to make this library without using IO monad, same for argv and for the >enviroment.
> for openFile it seems harder, it would require to have a lock on the file > to be sure that no one modify the file, same for a webpage. > No, not at all. All that is required is to make sure all calls to openFile f returns the same string, i.e the contents of the file when it was read the first time. /Lars L _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell