[Haskell-cafe] global variables

[Adrian Hey]

Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> For example, I was looking back at your ACIO mail a couple of months ago,
 > when I was thinking about concurrency.

Actually, this is Ian Starks proposal..

  http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2004-November/007664.html

..but is one with which I agree. I just wrote some stuff on the wiki
about this actually solved some currently insoluble problems.

> Not immediately achieving a critical mass behind a language change is not the
 > same as being ignored.

Unfortunately the situation seems worse than this. AFAICT we haven't
even got a consensus that that there is a real problem here that needs
any kind of solution :-)

Regards
--
Adrian Hey