Hello Chris, Friday, August 3, 2007, 8:09:49 PM, you wrote:
> foo = do b' <- readTVar b > c' <- readTVar c > d' <- readTvar d > return (b' + c' / d') > It's true that order of effects *can* be important in monads like IO and > STM. It's also true, though, that probably 50% of the time with IO, and 90%, in my programs at least > 95% with STM, the order does not actually matter. Taking a hard-line > approach on this and forcing a linear code structure is equivalent to > ignoring what experience has taught in dozens of other programming > languages. Can you think of a single widely used programming language > that forces programmers to write linear one-line-per-operation code like > this? assembler :) it's what our opponents propose - let's Haskell be like assembler with its simple and concise execution model :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
