[Haskell-cafe] Doing without IORef

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 21:07 , Jinwoo Lee wrote:
> But I still have to use IORef this way.

You can't escape the IORef unless you can convince the library to  
thread your state everywhere that it needs to be modified *and* where  
it needs to be read, without copying it.

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