On Feb 24, 2010, at 16:17 , Fabian Roth wrote:
Using UnsafeIO, however, leaves a creepy unsafe feeling...I don't fully understand though why it is unsafe. Doesn't hGetContents do the exact same thing (i.e. reading from IO returning a lazy string) but does not require UnsafeIO.
It does; it's just hidden *inside* hGetContents where you can't see it. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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