getEvent Doubts

[Ronald Legere]

--- Andre W B Furtado <aw@free.elogica.com.br> wrote:
> [Sorry about the previous email subject :) ]
> 
> In Hugs Graphics Library, many procedures call the
> function getEvent with a Window as the parameter.
> But getEvent is defined as below:
> 
> getEvent :: Events -> IO Event
> 
> How does this work? I've tryied to do something
> similar and got the following error message (in
> GHC):
 
Actually, this can't work (can it?). 
So there must be another 
 getEvent :: Window -> IO Event. 
 (.i.e. Its sort of  overloaded). 
And so , there is at least one, in SOEGraphics.hs
  getEvent window = getWindowEvent window

where getWindowEvent pulls out the Events from
a window and calls Events.getEvent :: Events-> IO
Event
(The getEvent :: Events-> IO Event is imported
qualified from GraphicsEvents.hs. I guess this was
done to avoid defining a type class, and probably
also because the end user doesnt need the
Events.getEvent, or at least very much)

Of course I am just speculating. I didnt write it :)


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