[Haskell-cafe] Re: Trying to write a TCP proxy

[John Ky]

Hi again,

Given that putStrLn contents did manage to print out the HTTP header
before blocking, am I correct in coming to the conlusion that
'contents' is evaluated lazily?  So Monads don't actually eliminate
laziness?

-John

On 9/20/06, Philippa Cowderoy <flippa at flippac.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, John Ky wrote:
>
> > Actually, it blocks on:
> >
> > >    putStrLn contents
> >
> > It even blocks if I replace it with:
> >
> > >    print $ length contents
> >
> > Is there some kind of magic happening here?
> >
>
> No, but you're trying to do magic - it can't get all of contents until the
> connection's dropped.
>
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