On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:51:48PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote: > > in fact, any prefix of "Foo", including the empty string, would be > correct. See section 21.2.2 in the (revised) Haskell 98 report. Aha, thanks. I've kludged around it with last (' ':s) `seq` hClose cout Ian