[Haskell] Re: Top Level TWI's again was Re: Re: Parameterized Show

[Aaron Denney]

On 2004-11-22, Benjamin Franksen <benjamin.franksen at bessy.de> wrote:
> On Monday 22 November 2004 09:38, Adrian Hey wrote:
>> You have yet to 
>> explain how you propose to deal with stdout etc..
>
> I see absolutely no reason why stdxxx must or should be top-level mutable 
> objects. They can and should be treated in the same way as environment and 
> command line arguments, i.e.
>
> getArgs :: IO [String]
> getEnv :: String -> IO String
> getStdin, getStdout, getStderr :: IO Handle
>
> Note that (just like environment and command line arguments) these handles may 
> refer to completely different things on different program runs.

Er, no.  The handles can be considered as the same but _pointing_ to
different things on different runs.  Keeping them outside the IO monad,
and only accessing them inside -- i.e. the current situation -- would be
fine.

They're not mutable in any sense.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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