[Haskell-cafe] do you have to use fix with forkio?

[Lennart Augustsson]

Personally I would not use fix.  I don't think it improves readability.

  -- Lennart

2009/3/5 Daryoush Mehrtash <dmehrtash at gmail.com>:
> In this chat server implementation
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Implement_a_chat_server
>
> forkIO is used with fix as in:
>
>     reader <- forkIO $ fix $ \loop -> do
>
>         (nr', line) <- readChan chan'
>         when (nr /= nr') $ hPutStrLn hdl line
>
>         loop
>
> Do you have to use fix?  Or is there a way to write this with a "let"?
>
> --
> Daryoush
>
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