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Stefan O'Rear  
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 More options Feb 16 2008, 8:36 pm
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From: Stefan O'Rear <stefa...@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:36:28 UTC
Local: Sat, Feb 16 2008 8:36 pm
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Doubting Haskell
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On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:11:59PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Donn Cave wrote:

> > But in Haskell, you cannot read a file line by line without writing an
> > exception handler, because end of file is an exception!

> Ah, yet another person who has never found System.IO.hIsEOF :-)

> Whereas in C or Python you would check the return value of read against
> zero or an empty string, in Haskell you call hIsEOF *before* a read.

I'll bet that breaks horribly in the not-so-corner case of /dev/tty.

Stefan

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