Unsafe Functions
Ashley Yakeley
ashley at semantic.org
Thu May 4 17:36:50 EDT 2006
Sven Panne wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 26. April 2006 03:26 schrieb Ashley Yakeley:
>
>>Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
>>
>>>Something like:
>>> Unsafe.IO
>>> Unsafe.ST ?
>>
>>Possibly even migrating Foreign to Unsafe.Foreign.
>>[...]
>
>
> ... to confuse people, make existing tutorials useless for beginners and
> forcing tons of code to be modified just for a cosmetic namespace change?
> Definitely not. Stuff in "Foreign" is by default not safe in the Haskell
> sense.
OK, that's fine. All I'm hoping for is a rule to determine whether a
given symbol is safe or not. As you pointed out, "unsafe*" doesn't work.
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