[Haskell-cafe] Lazy Lists and IO

Chaddaï Fouché chaddai.fouche at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 16:33:06 EDT 2007


2007/7/11, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com>:
>
> Ouch! That's gotta sting...
>
> I wasn't aware that this function was so leathal. I use it constantly
> all the time...
>

It isn't that "lethal" usually. It's only because he was using it on
an infinite stream that it hurt so much... If you use it on a normal
stdin or a hGetContents on a file it will be fine (though you will
lose the advantage of its laziness, for example constant memory
treatment).

-- 
Jedaï


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