[Haskell-cafe] New to Haskell - Question about hugsIORun from old Prelude

[Henning Thielemann]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Rahul Naik wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to rewrite some older (2001) haskell :
> 
> myReadFile :: String -> String
> myReadFile f = case hugsIORun (readFile f) of
>                 Right s -> s
>         Left _ -> ""
> 
> Can someone provide me with a up to date version of the above
> bit of code without using code from the old Prelude?

http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/ThatAnnoyingIoType