Caution:
- Although this module calls
unsafeInterleaveIO
for you, it cannot take the responsibility from you. Using this module is still as unsafe as callingunsafeInterleaveIO
manually. Thus we recommend to wrap the lazy I/O monad into a customnewtype
with a restricted set of operations which is considered safe for interleaving I/O actions. - Operations like
System.IO.hClose
are usually not safe within this monad, since they will only executed, if their result is consumed. Since this result is often()
this is quite unusual. It will also often be the case, that not the complete output is read, and thus the closing action is never reached. It is certainly best to call a closing action after you wrote the complete result of the lazy I/O monad somewhere -
return a :: LazyIO a
is very different fromliftIO (return a) :: LazyIO a
. The first one does not trigger previous IO actions, whereas the second one does.
Use it like
import qualified System.IO.Lazy as LazyIO LazyIO.run $ do liftIO $ putStr "enter first line:" x <- liftIO getLine liftIO $ putStr "enter second line:" y <- liftIO getLine return x
Because only the first line is needed,
only the first prompt and the first getLine
is executed.