Block-I/O in Haskell

Tomasz Zielonka t.zielonka at students.mimuw.edu.pl
Thu Oct 14 16:21:24 EDT 2004


On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:09:04PM +0100, Jon Fairbairn wrote:
> > If you are going to wait four months, you don't care about
> > nanoseconds.
> 
> No? Are you sure? To wait forty months expecting two things
> to happen ten nanoseconds apart and then have them happen
> simultaneously would be annoying.

Hmmm, that's right. Perhaps it would be best to use some fixed-point
type with unbounded integral part, like those used for representing
currency, but not necessarily decimal.

Best regards,
Tom

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