[Haskell-cafe] [Newbie] Why or why not haskell ?

Sven Panne Sven.Panne at aedion.de
Sun Dec 11 07:07:47 EST 2005


Am Sonntag, 11. Dezember 2005 09:58 schrieb Tomasz Zielonka:
> [...] I would like to see some support in tools for enforcing such a coding
> policy. It could look like this - a function written using only safe
> components would be marked as safe. Every unsafe feature like FFI,
> unsafePerformIO, etc. would "taint" a module/function, marking it
> unsafe. [...]

... in effect making things like putStrLn, getContents etc. "tainted", 
resulting in probably > 95% of the hierachical libraries in the fptools 
repository being "tainted", including lots of stuff from the H98 report. :-) 
Nice idea, but not very practical IMHO.

Cheers,
   S.


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