[Haskell-cafe] Re: Read a single Char

[Neil Mitchell]

> No, it happens with Hugs on Fedora Core 5 (the fc5 Hugs package), not
> WinHugs.

Woops, the previous post in a different thread was talking about
WinHugs, and I forgot to context-switch :)

Does GHCi give the different behaviour? If so, one of them is probably a bug.

Thanks

Neil

>
> Thanks,
>
> Hans
>
> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 17:27 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > > I have a similar question. When I use getChar with Hugs the newline
> > > (caused by pressing 'Enter')  seems to be carried over into the next
> > > call of main, where it is treated as a single input character.
> > > The workaround is getLine and head, but it would be nice to drop the
> > > newline right away. I suppose the solution offered here:
> >
> > Hmm, sounds like a bug in WinHugs, I'll check it out
> > Thanks
> >
> > Neil
>
>