Raw I/O library proposal, second (more pragmatic) draft

[John Meacham]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:13:12AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
 > 
> > Unless of course your stream type is a type constructor:
> > 
> > class InputStream s where
> >   streamGet :: s m e -> m e
> >   ...
> 
> I can see the advantage in abstracting over the element type (in fact, I
> think I'll explore that).
> 
> What would be the motivation for abstracting over the monad type?  IMHO,
> it has to be done consistently or not at all.  That is, *all* our IO
> code should be abstracted over the monad, and I don't think that's a
> good idea.

ArrayStreams could be implemented in the state monad. Not sure how
useful this is, but I imagine people would use it if it were available.
        John

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