Haskell 98: Behaviour of hClose

Malcolm Wallace Malcolm.Wallace@cs.york.ac.uk
Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:04:18 +0100 

"Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj@microsoft.com> writes:

> (You can change echoing settings via the IO.hSetEcho etc.)

Ahem, one of the deficiencies of Haskell'98 is that there is no function
IO.hSetEcho.  There used to be one in Haskell 1.3 I think, so I guess there
was a good reason for removing it?

Regards,
    Malcolm