[Haskell-cafe] Type system madness

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 02:49:35 EDT 2007


Hello Andrew,

Thursday, July 12, 2007, 10:15:00 PM, you wrote:
>> While BOMs (Byte Order Mark) are pretty irrelevant to byte-oriented
>> encodings like UTF-8, I think programs that fail on their presence can
>> be considered buggy.
>>   

> Yay! Haskell's text I/O system is buggy. :-P

definitely. for example, on windows it doesn't support unicode
filenames nor files bigger than 4gb, so i use my own lib, a thin layer
around Windows API


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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