[Haskell-cafe] On hGetContents semi-closenesscloseness

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Tue Feb 15 20:30:09 CET 2011


> In a way, it's analogous to the situation with garbage collection and
> closing file handles in finalizers; but the details are different and
> the unpredictable file closing comes from lazy evaluation rather than
> garbage collection.

Except that lazy evaluation can affect *when* the data becomes garbage! ;-)



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