The hashtable needs to be been created in IO, after that, think of the 'hashtable' as a analogous to a file handle. You have to pass it around to do anything with it - but the only things you can do with it are in IO.
(That's why no-one really likes it, of course...) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
