[clean-list] Wish list =+ New *World

[Edsko de Vries]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 08:16:55AM -0700, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote:
> But this still requires that an extra *File parameter be threaded  
> down from Start to the local call site. I still don't see why we  
> couldn't (well I guess I could using C functions?) have a  
> createFiles :: *Files call that returns a blank nameless partition  
> from the FileSystem? This would be very convenient for any systems  
> programming task requiring functional access to /tmp......

Yes, I guess if you can guarantee that that the *Files you get is
pointing to an 'empty partition', you're safe. But I wouldn't be too
sure how to implement that.

Edsko