[Haskell-beginners] Config data

[Sumit Sahrawat, Maths & Computing, IIT (BHU)]

It would me more logical if you had three modules, Parser, EMail, Main,
where Main imports the other two, and they are independent.

On 7 June 2015 at 00:13, Mike Houghton <mike_k_houghton at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’ve haskell files  parser.hs and email.hs
> email.hs is a module imported into parser and parser has the main.
>
> email has various passwords and server names needed to connect and send
> email. I want to have those details in a config file and read it  in at
> start - using say config module.  I’m ok with this part but the
> practicality of doing it eludes me...
>
> It seems to me that email module can either get the config details itself
> or be told them by parser. If email wants to get them how would it do this?
> It does not have a main that gets run so can’t load a config file.(can it
> ??)
>
> However parser can load the config in its main and then tell mail what the
> values are but how would mail save them?
>
> Of course I could chanage the signatures of the email send/receive
> functions in mail  to take the connection details but that seems wrong.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
>
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Regards

Sumit Sahrawat
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