I would recommend reading the variables in the main and pack the rest of your program into a monad. But only if you really need to access the variables from everywhere and don't want to pass them around explicitely.
Markus > I need to be able to access these values effieiently and from > virtually anywhere in the program. It would be nice to "at some > point" open the file and read all these variables, all at once. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe