[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Re: Global Variables and IO initializers

[Keean Schupke]

Adrian Hey wrote:

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>Oh and while we're at it, perhaps one of you could explain what it is
>you think is unsafe about the hypothetical top level <- bindings we're
>discussing (I've asked this before too, but no answer has been provided).
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>Are your objections dogmatic, aesthetic, or rational?
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>Do either of you object to the existance of such things as stdout?
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>Or are you happy with their existance and it's just their safe creation
>you object to? If so, this seems like a strange contradiction to me.
>
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Just because something is possible does not make it desireable.
There may be certain extreme examples that really do require
this kind of thing - but I would have thought that if the code could
be refactored not to require it then that would be better.

Keean.