[Haskell-cafe] Re: Functional vs Imperative

2005-09-14 Thread Dhaemon
Hi again, Thanks to everyone for replying. I think I get it now; I was focusing on the wrong aspect of the question. I was totally overlooking referential transparency and the cascade of 'capabilities'(lazyness, etc) it creates. Thus evaluation is just getting values out of expressions, actions(whi

[Haskell-cafe] Functional vs Imperative

2005-09-13 Thread Dhaemon
Hello, I'm quite interested in haskell, but there is something I don't understand(intuitively). I've been crawling the web for an answer, but nothing talks to me... So I was hoping I could find some help here: "How is evaluating an _expression_ different from performing action?" I'm puzzled... Does