unsafePerformIO safety.

[Lennart Augustsson]

I wouldn't like if unsafePerformIO could never be inlined, sometimes  
you want it inlined for performance.
And not all uses are hacky, it's just that when I use it, then burden  
is on me to convince myself that it is safe.

On Mar 6, 2007, at 23:56 , Neil Mitchell wrote:

> Hi
>
> On 3/6/07, Lennart Augustsson <lennart at augustsson.net> wrote:
>> Yeah, you really need {-# NOINLINE var #-} to make it reasonable  
>> safe.
>
> Couldn't GHC bake in knowledge about unsafePerformIO, and never inline
> it? It is a slightly hacky solution, but since unsafePerformIO is
> pretty much only used in hacks, I think its almost fitting.
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil