problems with working with Handles

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:57:21AM -0400, Dean Herington wrote:
> Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
> 
> > One can also use Strategies module that comes with GHC (in package
> > concurrent), for example:
> 
> Could you tell me more specifically where to find the Strategies module in
> GHC?  I couldn't find it in the documentation.

[tomekz@green load]$ ghci -package concurrent
   ___         ___ _
  / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
 / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 6.0, for Haskell 98.
/ /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
\____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.

Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Loading package concurrent ... linking ... done.
Prelude> :m + Strategies
Prelude Strategies> :m + IO
Prelude Strategies IO> h <- openFile "/etc/termcap" ReadMode
Prelude Strategies IO> cs <- hGetContents h
Prelude Strategies IO> putStrLn "hmm" `demanding` rnf cs
hmm
Prelude Strategies IO> hClose h
Prelude Strategies IO> length cs
737535
Prelude Strategies IO>

Note that you have to use -package Strategies option. I couldn't find
this module in the hierarchical libraries. The same works in GHC 5.04.3

To GHC developers:
    What is the status of this module?
    Can I assume that future versions of GHC will have it?

> Thanks.
> Dean

Best regards,
Tom

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