GHC as a library - getting output from GHCI

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

| Also if stmt =
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|     SomeModule.prettyPrinter "foobar"
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| and SomeModule contains
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|     prettyPrinter x = putStrLn $ "Pretty: " ++ x
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| then the let binding will not catch it.

Indeed, that's exactly what I meant in my original msg. I have always thought it ugly that stdin and stdout are top-level definitions.  I want to be able to say

        withStdout :: Handle -> IO a -> IO a

so that (withStdout h a) runs 'a' but sends all std-out output to h.

Haskell should support this.  Starting a whole OS process to redirect stdout must surely be overkill!

(But maybe that is what you have to do today.)

S