When tryin to remove the buffering for stdout with
hSetBuffering stdout NoBuffering
as part of a ghc-0.29 compiled program, running the prgram fails with
Fail: I/O error: UnsupportedOperation: can't set buffering for a dirty
handle
What is the problem?
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Stephan Tobies, Student of
Carl R. Witty wrote (to the Haskell mailing list):
[..]
The Report could give up and say that column numbers in the
presence of \u escapes are explicitly implementation-defined.
[..]
[This] sounds pretty bad (effectively prohibiting layout in portable
programs using Unicode
Apologies if this is an issue which has been debated before - I'm a
relative newcomer to Haskell.
The specification of arrays allows for indices for which the
corresponding element in the array is undefined. There are also
functions which get all of the indices, elements or associations in the
Hi!
1. I don't seem to get my messages to this list
echoed back to me... (Which I consider a bug.)
2. As I tried to explain in detail in my previous message,
(later) options 1 and 2 **do not make any sense**.
Option 3 makes at
At 12:45 +0100 97/11/10, Kent Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As everyone (getting) familiar with Unicode should
know, Unicode is **NOT** a font encoding.
It is a CHARACTER encoding. The difference
shows up mostly for 'complex scripts', such as Arabic
and Devanagari (used for Hindi), but
Let me reiterate:
Unicode is ***NOT*** a glyph encoding!
Unicode is ***NOT*** a glyph encoding!
and never will be. The same character can be displayed as
a variety of glyphs, depending not only of the font/style,
but also, and this is the important
