How to work around GHC bug

Volker Wysk pf3 at volker-wysk.de
Wed Mar 14 15:17:07 CET 2012


Am Mittwoch 14 März 2012, 15:08:38 schrieben Sie:
> On 14 March 2012 13:51, Volker Wysk <pf3 at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> > import System
> > 
> > main = do
> > 
> > [a] <- getArgs
> > 
> > putStrLn (show a)
> 
> a here is already of type String. If you don't call show on it, it'll do
> the expected thing.
> 
> Try:
> main = do
> [a] <- getArgs
> putStrLn a

That's not true. The result is:

./tmp $ ./arg ä
ä

Bye
Volker



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