Re: Request for comments on the Haskell 1.3 I/O Proposal

1994-09-05 Thread wadler
Some quick comments on the Haskell 1.3 proposal. (1) In the design of Haskell 1.0, the type IOError was a bit of a guess. It wasn't clear whether it defined too many or too few error classes; it might even have been better to just replace IOError by type string. By now, we have more experienc

Request for comments on the Haskell 1.3 I/O Proposal

1994-08-23 Thread Andrew Gordon
Haskell users, As part of the effort to produce version 1.3 of the Haskell report, we (a group of Haskell users and implementors) have drafted a proposal for a portable form of monadic I/O in Haskell. The current version is available at URL http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/adg/io.html an