c_stanto writes:
>
> here is my code and I am guess that the problem is that openFile returns
> an IO Handle and getContents takes just a Handle. How do I go about
> fixing this?
>
>
> module Main(main) where
>
> import IO
>
> main = putStrLn (getContents (openFile "./joseph.txt" ReadMode))
Hi.
Try looking at a short paper on monads. For example, this one
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~nww/Monad.html
(found from http://haskell.org/bookshelf/)
introduces monadic I/O and shows why we generally can't just compose
functions when we're dealing with monads.
Regards,
Tom
