Proposal: Add concatMapM function (#2042)
Aaron Denney
wnoise at ofb.net
Fri Feb 1 04:01:24 EST 2008
On 2008-02-01, Roman Leshchinskiy <rl at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
>>
>> the right way to deal with "modifiers" is to attach them to the Handle
>> itself like this:
>>
>> f <- openFile "name" >>= withLocking >>= withEncoding utf8
>
> IMO, global state is never "the right way" if it can be avoided. It will
> always lead to problems. Especially in a functional language like Haskell.
This isn't global state, but local to the handle, and only affects where
the handle is passed in. It's just extending an opaque data type.
--
Aaron Denney
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