[GUI] Re: Events and finalizers

[Glynn Clements]

Nick Name wrote:

> I repeat for the last time, lazy lists are one of the fundamental data
> structures in a lazy language; it's necessary to have them, not because
> I say so, but because people USE them today. So remember this when
> you'll be done with the core. Streams are *not* an alternative to Fran.
> They are just a convenient wrapper over an all monadic program.
> 
> Just notice the following functions in the base libraries: getContents,
> hGetContents, readFile, getChanContents, and (newStdGen >>= return .
> randoms).

All of the above except the last one are useless for real-world
programs; primarily because they over-simplify.

Attempting to apply the same approach to a GUI library will fail for
similar reasons, but to an even greater extent.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>