[Haskell] Global Variables and IO initializers

Ben Rudiak-Gould Benjamin.Rudiak-Gould at cl.cam.ac.uk
Tue Nov 23 06:43:38 EST 2004


Lennart Augustsson wrote:

> George Russell wrote:
>
>> (3) It needs no extensions to the Haskell language, and only fairly
>> standard hierarchical libraries like Data.IORef.
>
> It uses unsafePerformIO which is very much an extension to Haskell. :)

I think by Haskell he means the common language currently implemented by 
GHC and Hugs.

-- Ben



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