RealWorld

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Would be fine with me.

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On Behalf Of Ross Paterson
| Sent: 05 September 2003 11:08
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| Subject: RealWorld
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| Now that RealWorld, formerly an implementation trick inside GHC, has
| become part of the public interface:
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| 	stToIO :: ST RealWorld a -> IO a
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| (to make stToIO sound), I think it needs a better name.  The IO monad
| does not in fact give you exclusive access to the world, but to a
| region of the heap separate from those used by invocations of runST.
| (That's not all IO does, of course, but it's the relevant part for
| stToIO.)  I propose IORegion.
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