[Haskell-cafe] Composing functions with runST

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Fri Jan 5 07:52:08 EST 2007


Hello Yitzchak,

Thursday, January 4, 2007, 4:25:06 PM, you wrote:

>>> The other is awkwardness in extending the capabilites
>>> of ST. For that, I would propose that the function "unsafeRunST"
>>> be added to the library.

> Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
>> this function exists, but named unsafeIOtoST.

> That wasn't what I had in mind, because it forces the
> thread parameter to take the specific value RealWorld.

this parameter don't have any "physical" meaning at runtime. i still think
that it is just what you mean. what other meaning may have unsafeRunST
operation?


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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