[Haskell-cafe] Type system madness

[Andrew Coppin]

Ketil Malde wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 20:10 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>
>   
>> When I tell the editor to save UTF-8, it inserts some weird "BOM" 
>> character at the start of the file - and thus, any attempt at 
>> programatically processing that file instantly fails. :-(
>>     
>
> While BOMs (Byte Order Mark) are pretty irrelevant to byte-oriented
> encodings like UTF-8, I think programs that fail on their presence can
> be considered buggy.
>   

Yay! Haskell's text I/O system is buggy. :-P