readFile close behaviour

[Alastair David Reid]

Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com> writes:
> The upshot is that while GHC might notice that you have dropped a
> Handle, another implementation which doesn't do black holing, stack
> stubbing, strictness analysis, GC evaluation of selector thunks or
> any of the other tricks we do to avoid space leaks might not notice.

Maybe I'm confused but I thought the original complaint was that GHC
(which plays all these tricks) was leaking objects (file descriptors)
worse than Hugs (which plays very few of these tricks).

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