[Haskell-cafe] GHC + interactive input/output

Jonathan Cast jonathanccast at fastmail.fm
Fri Feb 8 22:02:24 EST 2008


On 8 Feb 2008, at 6:50 PM, Jonathan Cast wrote:

> On 8 Feb 2008, at 6:34 PM, Ryan Ingram wrote:
>
>> import System.IO
>>
>> myGetLine = hFlush stdout >> getLine
>
> That fixes this issue, certainly (although it's superfluous; my  
> program really does contain only a single call to getLine)...
>
> Nevertheless, it would be nice to at least have it in the standard  
> library; it's much more useful than any of the input functions that  
> already exist.

Also, for some reason, this doesn't seem to be necessary inside an  
Emacs buffer...  Do we not care about performance in that case?

jcc



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