An answer and a question to GHC implementors [was Re: How to make Claessen's Refs Ord-able?]

[Ashley Yakeley]

At 2002-04-08 11:33, John Meacham wrote:

>this usage of unsafePerformIO is such a staple of real-world Haskell
>programming, it seems there should be some language (or experemental
>compiler *wink wink ghc nudge*) support for it.

Sounds like a bad habit that shouldn't be encouraged to me. Still, if 
there is a way to support this safely, perhaps it should be allowed.

I'd like to see a compiler flag that made all "unsafe" calls compiler 
errors. I'd put it into package javavm so that anyone using JVM-Bridge 
would have it turned on.

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Ashley Yakeley, Functional Purist
Rank 2 Knight, Order of the Polymorphic Typed Lambda Calculus
Seattle WA