xml in fptools?

[Ross Paterson]

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:52:34AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> I'm not even certain that lazy I/O doesn't upset referential 
> transparency.  It seems hard to construct a concrete counter example 
> though.  My intuition is something like this: if evaluating a thunk can 
> cause IO to take place, then the act of evaluating that thunk might 
> affect the value of another lazy I/O computation, and hence it should be 
> possible to get different results by evaluating the thunks in a 
> different order.  I'm concerned that in the presence of dependencies 
> between lazy I/O computations, the order of evaluation might be visible.

Each time you say I/O here, you mean "input", I think.