Unsafe hGetContents

[Simon Marlow]

On 16/09/2009 21:17, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Are there any plans to get rid of hGetContents and the semi-closed
> handle state for Haskell Prime?
>
> (I call hGetContents unsafe because it adds side effects to pattern
> matching, stricly speaking invalidating most of the transformations
> which are expected to be valid in a pure language.)

There is no current proposal for this, no.  Feel free to start one; 
information about the process for Haskell Prime proposals is here

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/Process

Cheers,
	Simon