how to do lazy IO like getContents?

Ben Escoto bescoto at stanford.edu
Sat Oct 18 19:26:45 EDT 2003


On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 02:03:58 +0200 Nick Name <nick.name at inwind.it> wrote:
> You have to use unsafeInterleaveIO, wich lazily defers the IO action 
> passed as an argument. Look for this function in your documentation, 
> both hugs and ghc have it.

Got it, thanks.  Do you know in what sense it is "unsafe" though?  Are
there some pitfalls I should be aware of?


-- 
Ben Escoto
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