[Haskell-cafe] global variables

Taral taralx at gmail.com
Wed May 23 19:31:29 EDT 2007


On 5/23/07, Adrian Hey <ahey at iee.org> wrote:
> I think I still prefer..
>
> var :: IORef Int
> var <- newIORef 3

So do I. For one very good reason: this syntax could be defined as a
"constructor" syntax and guaranteed to run before main.

The other syntaxes proposed don't strike me as sufficiently rigorous.

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