Dealing with configuration data

[John Hughes]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

> | Sorry, I should also mention implicit parameters, if you're willing to
> use
> | that extension.  I don't like them, though, and my impression from SPJ
> is
> | that it's very unclear whether they will get into Haskell 2 or not...
>

I wrote a short paper on this very topic, comparing alternative solutions.
I ended up favouring implicit parameters. If you want to read it, it's at

	http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Globals.ps

John