unsafeness of unsafeInterleaveIO

[Andre Pang]

On 10/06/2005, at 11:16 AM, Remi Turk wrote:


> Are you sure you're not talking about unsafePerformIO?
>
> System.IO.Unsafe.unsafePerformIO    :: IO a -> a
> System.IO.Unsafe.unsafeInterleaveIO :: IO a -> IO a

[written to Lennert Augustsson]: yes, I think you misread  
unsafeInterleaveIO as unsafePerformIO, Lennert :)

> As far as I know unsafeInterleaveIO in general isn't any unsafer
> than it's "special cases" getContents / hGetContents / readFile /
> getChanContents.  Although fighting lazy IO might occasionally
> drive someone mad, which could arguably be called "unsafe".

OK, that's more-or-less what I thought.  Thanks Remi!


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