[Haskell-cafe] question about STM and IO

[Stephan Friedrichs]

Hello,

John Lato wrote:
> I was recently looking at the STM library, and I have a question about
> the function "unsafeIOToSTM".  Can anyone explain to me what is unsafe
> about it, and what sort of use would be considered "safe"?

it's unsafe to perform IO inside of a transaction as it can't be undone, 
when rolling it back. I guess, unsafeIOToSTM has been designed in order 
to allow us to inject debugging output into a transaction, but you 
really shouldn't use it to perform "real" IO (like writing files, etc.).

HTH - Stephan

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  - Dieter Nuhr

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