That way of handling io is indeed snazzy, and a port of ideas from some Haskell libs, but it's worth pointing out that on the Haskell side there's been a bit of

That way of handling io is indeed snazzy, and a port of ideas from some Haskell libs, but it's worth pointing out that on the Haskell side there's been a bit of innovation in allowing more direct style Apis for iteratee libraries