Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Actually, for reasons beyond my comprehension, if a Haskell program 
>> halts abnormally, all files are closed, but not necessarily *flushed*. 
> 
> Because it's Haskell that flushes the buffers to the file, but it's the 
> OS that closes the file. If you run it on (say) an Amiga, it won't close 
> the files, either. Apparently Haskell isn't writing directly to the 
> files, but to Haskell-managed buffers. Same thing happens in C with stdio.

Yeah, but if the Haskell runtime has code to handle printing out a 
human-readable error message on an unhandled exception, why can't it 
also run some finalisers? This is pretty basic stuff!

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