Block-I/O in Haskell

David Brown haskell at davidb.org
Wed Oct 13 18:47:22 EDT 2004


On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:36:37AM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> Benjamin Franksen writes:
> 
>  > milliseconds (1/10^6 seconds)
> 
> Duh! I meant microseconds of course. Thanks for catching
> that.
> 
> Tomasz, I just took "artistic liberties" with the module's
> name. Children.hs is too awfully long to type, IMHO. So
> there is no deeper reason, only laziness. :-)

However, to a native English speak, the word "Childs" doesn't come across
as being multiple Children.  On first glance, I see it as either Child's,
with the apostrophe missing, or I try pronouncing it to sound like the
vowel in chilled, and then stumble on the 'ds'.

Dave


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