[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Top Level <-

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Aug 31, at 10:20, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Adrian Hey wrote:
>>> But then again, I'm sure that some that will be adamant that any way
>> of making "global variables" is a hack. But they'll still be happy
>> to go on using file IO, sockets etc regardless, blissfully unaware
>> of the hacks they are dependent on :-)
>
> I'm not sure of precisely what you mean here, but stdin, stdout and  
> stderr are things provided by the OS to a process. That's what  
> defines them as having process scope, not something the Haskell  
> language or RTS does.

But their representations in Haskell must have the same scope and are  
therefore de facto global variables.

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