[Haskell-cafe] Strictness in do block

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello John,

Wednesday, July 5, 2006, 3:04:22 PM, you wrote:

> What I want to know is the generic way to force an entire String (or
> other list, perhaps from hGetContents) to be evaluated (read into RAM, I
> guess) so the underlying file can be closed.... and do it right now.

eval [] = []
eval (x:xs) = eval xs

  do str <- getContents
     return $! eval str
     ....

is my usual hack. there is also `deepSeq` if you need to fully
evaluate more complex structure. btw, this 'eval' don't evaluate list
elements - it should be not a problem for evaluation result of
'getContents'

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com