reads -package:base

equivalent to readsPrec with a precedence of 0.
A parser for a type a, represented as a function that takes a String and returns a list of possible parses as (a,String) pairs. Note that this kind of backtracking parser is very inefficient; reading a large structure may be quite slow (cf ReadP).
Parse a time value given a format string. See parseTimeM for details.
Reads the FilePath pointed to by the symbolic link and returns it. Note: calls readlink.
Reads the RawFilePath pointed to by the symbolic link and returns it. Note: calls readlink.
Reads the PosixPath pointed to by the symbolic link and returns it. Note: calls readlink.
Read a StablePtr# value from mutable array; offset in machine words. Warning: this can fail with an unchecked exception.
Read a StablePtr# value from mutable address; offset in machine words. On some platforms, the access may fail for an insufficiently aligned Addr#. Warning: this can fail with an unchecked exception.
Read the element at a given index in a mutable array. Note: this function does not do bounds checking.
Function to send a file based on pread()/send() for Unix. This makes use of the file descriptor cache. For Windows, this is emulated by Handle. Since: 3.1.0
attempts to parse a value from the front of the string, returning a list of (parsed value, remaining string) pairs. If there is no successful parse, the returned list is empty. Derived instances of Read and Show satisfy the following: That is, readsPrec parses the string produced by showsPrec, and delivers the value that showsPrec started with.
Same as readExpType, but for Scaled ExpTypes
Parse a string into a significand and exponent. A trivial example might be: ghci> readSignificandExponentPair "1E2" (1,2) In a more complex case we might return a exponent different than that which the user wrote. This is needed in order to use a Integer significand. ghci> readSignificandExponentPair "-1.11E5" (-111,3)
Read the system's default mime.types files, and add the data contained therein to the passed object, then return the new one.