Haskell Platform proposal: Add the vector package

[Simon Marlow]

On 16/07/2012 13:18, Gábor Lehel wrote:

> With apologies for repeating myself, isn't the fact that unsafeRead
> and unsafeWrite can access arbitrary memory locations a problem? Does
> memory safety not matter?

The definition of safety in Safe Haskell requires type safety, it does 
not impose any extra restrictions on what you can do in the IO monad. 
In the terminology we use in the paper, the latter is called a 
"security" requirement, as distinct from safety.  Since security 
requirements tend to be application-specific, it wouldn't make sense to 
build one into Safe Haskell itself.  Safe Haskell is the mechanism on 
which you can implement whatever security policy you need - there's an 
example in the paper of defining a restricted IO monad for use by 
untrusted code.

Cheers,
	Simon