Haskell Platform proposal: Add the vector package

[Gábor Lehel]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I see, thanks. I'll have to read the paper.


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