On Dec 29, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: > Why would IO Int be something special or mysterious?
I don't know if it is special or mysterious, but I'm pretty sure IO is non-deterministic, non-computable, etc. In other words not the same as computation. > It's an ordinary value like everything else; it's on the same footing as > [Char], Maybe Int, Int -> String, Bool, and so on. I see no difference > between the list [1,2,3] :: [Int] and the action "pick a random number > between 1 and 6" :: IO Int . We'll have to agree to disagree - I see a fundamental difference. But that's ok, nothing says everybody has to agree on the One True Way to think about computing. Cheers, Gregg _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
