On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:53 +0200, Cristian Baboi wrote:
> > The semantics of IO, and the guarantees of the runtime.
> >
> > IO specifies that (>>) means "compose two actions to make a larger
> > action which does the first actions, then the second action".
> >
> > [do {a; a;} is notation for a >> a]
> >
> > The RTS specifies that the "main" action is performed exactly once.
>
> Is this dependent on the implementation (if I use GHC or Hugs) or is
> something that the language say ?
Part of the language. You do get your guarantee written in blood.
-Peter
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