Removing lazy IO? (Was: Re: Proposal: Stop enforcing single-writer-multi-reader file access)

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 9 November 2011 14:26, Jason Dagit <dagitj at gmail.com> wrote:
> The other separate proposal that I would like to propose (at some time
> in the future) is a thorough removal of "lazy IO" from base.  Or at
> least make it not available in the Prelude (ie., people have to ask
> for it if they want it).  Perhaps this would require the support of
> Haskell'?

Is this really necessary/desirable?  I for one have made use of lazy
I/O (though admittedly I typically do so now via lazy ByteString/Text
values rather than String-based I/O).

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