[Haskell-beginners] Get things from IO monad
jianqiuchi at gmail.com
jianqiuchi at gmail.com
Fri May 6 12:17:12 CEST 2011
Thanks guys, I thinks I can stop trying to get things out of IO now.
Instead I should see if I could make my monad as an instance of MonadIO, so
I can use liftIO, which should be safe I believe.
2011-5-6下午3:46,Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at googlemail.com>撰写:
> On Friday 06 May 2011 05:28:35, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:
> > If you are a beginner, you should never use anything that starts with
> > 'unsafe'.
> Basically yes, use something beginning with 'unsafe' only when you know
> why
> it's not unsafe in your specific case.
> But of course there are different levels of unsafeness,
> Data.Array.Base.unsafeAt for example is relatively benign (same as in
> other
> languages: if you don't let the compiler check array bounds and screw your
> check up, you can get nonsense or segfaults, but it's relatively easy to
> understand and control).
> > And you should never use 'unsafePerformIO'. And you
> > should NEVER use 'unsafeCoerce'.
> Those two indeed have a different calibre, use them only
> whenYouReallyKnowWhatYouAreDoing.
> They have their uses and sometimes are the right thing, but like goto, in
> most cases one is tempted to use them, one shouldn't.
> >
> > Cheers, =)
> >
> > --
> > Felipe.
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