[Haskell-cafe] A Monad for on-demand file generation?

[Ketil Malde]

Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> writes:

>> 1) unsafeInterleaveIO seems like a big hammer to use for this problem,
>> and there are a lot of gotchas involved that you may not have fully
>> thought out.  But you do meet the main criteria (file being read is
>> assumed to be constant for a single run of the program).

> Any other gotcha? 

The one that springs to mind is that you might run out of file
handles. At least on Linux, that's a precious resource.

-k
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