[Haskell-beginners] A first try

[Manfred Lotz]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:51:03 -0400
David Place <d at vidplace.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jun 27, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> 
> >> To ensure that the entire file is read, you can seq on the length,
> >> 
> >>    xml <- U.hGetContents inh
> >>    let content = parseXMLDoc xml
> >>    length xml `seq` case content of ...
> >> 
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for the suggestion. Works fine.
> > 
> > I only tried deepseq because my first try with seq 
> > 
> > let content = xml `seq` parseXMLDoc xml
> > 
> > didn't work. 
> > 
> 
> You can call me squeamish, but using a pure function (length) for its
> side-effects seems kind of kludge-y.  :-)
> 

Yes, I admit it looks strange.  :-)




-- 
Manfred