[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Top Level <-

[Adrian Hey]

Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> BTW, I'm not contradicting that the use of global variables can be
> necessary when interfacing with legacy code, I just don't think it's
> the right design when doing something new.

AFAICS the use of top level mutable state in the base libs has nothing
at all to do with interfacing with legacy code, it's a semantic
necessity and there's no legacy code involved.

If you want to dispute that then please show some real Haskell code that
does as good or better job without it (or point me too the relevant
legacy code that makes it necessary).

Regards
--
Adrian Hey