[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Top Level <-

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Aug 28, at 20:45, Adrian Hey wrote:

> Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>> If Haskell had always taken the pragmatic path of adding what seems
>> easiest and most in line with imperative practice it would not be the
>> language it is today.  It would be Perl, ML, or Java.
>> The Haskell philosophy has always been to stick it out until someone
>> comes up with the right solution to a problem rather than picking  
>> some
>> easy way out.
>
> BTW, unsafePerformIO seems quite pragmatic and easy to me, so let's
> not get too snobby about this. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)


It's anything but easy; there are specific rules you need to follow,  
including use of certain compiler pragmas, to insure it works properly.

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