[Haskell-cafe] unsafeSTToIO and stToIO

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Thu Apr 30 16:20:57 EDT 2009


On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:44:49PM -0700, Jason Dusek wrote:
>   I gather that "...making it possible to use ST code directly
>   on IORef's." is what we have today?

No, we have stToIO :: ST RealWorld a -> IO a, but STRef and IORef are
still incompatible types.  (I now think that's a good thing, because
STRefs have more equations than IORefs.)


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