Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hash table constructors return table in IO Monad. Why?

2011-05-12 Thread michael rice
I guess everyone has weighed in. I must have been hallucinating. Yes, this will work. Thanks, Michael --- On Thu, 5/12/11, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: From: Bryan O'Sullivan Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hash table constructors return table in IO Monad. Why? To: "michael rice"

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hash table constructors return table in IO Monad. Why?

2011-05-12 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:59 PM, michael rice wrote: > > HashTable doesn't do it. Neither does Map. Was I dreaming? > multiInsert k v m = insertWith' (++) k [v] m ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/li

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hash table constructors return table in IO Monad. Why?

2011-05-12 Thread Ozgur Akgun
On 12 May 2011 20:59, michael rice wrote: > HashTable doesn't do it. Neither does Map. Was I dreaming? > I suppose you could implement this functionality on top of either. HTH, Ozgur ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.ha

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hash table constructors return table in IO Monad. Why?

2011-05-12 Thread michael rice
gt; [5,6] HashTable doesn't do it. Neither does Map. Was I dreaming? Michael --- On Thu, 5/12/11, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: From: Bryan O'Sullivan Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hash table constructors return table in IO Monad. Why? To: "Stephen Tetley" Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hash table constructors return table in IO Monad. Why?

2011-05-12 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Stephen Tetley wrote: > 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. > The appropriat

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hash table constructors return table in IO Monad. Why?

2011-05-12 Thread Stephen Tetley
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] Hash table constructors return table in IO Monad. Why?

2011-05-12 Thread michael rice
Is there some reason why ALL the ways to create a hash table return one in the IO Monad, but all the functions for retrieving a value from a hash table take as an argument a hash table NOT in the IO Monad? Michael  = Prelude Data.HashTable> let ht = fromList id [(5,'a'),(6,'b')]Pr