[Haskell-cafe] Unwrapping long lines in text files

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 8/14/10 19:07 , Ben Millwood wrote:
> Strangely, it prints this before the output of your program - this
> isn't terribly important, but for the sake of completeness, it's
> because of the different buffering characteristics of stdout and
> stderr, which confusingly mean that even though your program produces
> output and then produces an error, the error is printed immediately
> while the output waits until the program is terminated to be produced.
> I think. Something like that, anyway.

My guess is he's redirecting stdout and stderr to the same file, and stderr
happens to get flushed by the Haskell runtime before stdout (possibly
because a flush is performed regardless when an exception is printed).  It
is, as you note, not really relevant to the actual logic error leading to
the exception.

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