[Haskell-cafe] GHC + interactive input/output

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Feb 8, 2008, at 19:41 , Philip Weaver wrote:

> Your "gsi> " is buffered because there's no newline at the end.  To  
> flush the buffer and force it to be printed immediately, use  
> 'hFlush' from the System.IO library, or use 'hSetBuffering' from  
> that same library: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/ 
> libraries/base/System-IO.html
>
> I believe you can observe the same behavior in C.

Most C stdio libraries in my experience have extra code in the  
functions that read stdin to flush stdout first, specifically because  
of lazy people who don't pay attention to buffering.

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