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

[Ferenc Wagner]

Henning Thielemann <iakd0 at clusterf.urz.uni-halle.de> writes:

> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Keean Schupke wrote:
>
>> If you tell me the library you wish to use I may be able
>> to suggest a better alternative.
>
> I'm using FFTW and PLPlot (but not with Haskell), both
> uses internal states and thus must be considered as ill
> designed. Do you know of better alternatives?

I'm no expert on this, being exposed to FFTW for a couple of
hours, but isn't its internal state encapsulated into the
'plan', which is suitable as a handle?
-- 
Feri.