[Haskell-cafe] Filesystem questions

Yitzchak Gale gale at sefer.org
Sun Oct 14 05:38:32 EDT 2007


I wrote:
>> How about a built-in function that represents a directory tree
>> as a lazy Data.Tree?

Jules Bean wrote:
> Please no.
> The last thing haskell needs is more dangerous semantically broken
> non-referentially-transparent lazy IO structures.

Agreed. I would definitely not want it to be a dangerous
semantically broken non-referentially-transparent lazy
IO structure.

-Yitz


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