On 20/09/06, John Ky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So Monads don't actually eliminate laziness?
Monads and laziness are completely orthagonal issues; they have
nothing to do with one another. I think you're getting confused with
purity. Monads can be used to encapsulate effects, to allow you to
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:26:03AM +1000, John Ky wrote:
> Given that putStrLn contents did manage to print out the HTTP header
> before blocking, am I correct in coming to the conlusion that
> 'contents' is evaluated lazily?
hGetContents breaks the rules of the IO monad - it returns a value (the
Hi again,
Given that putStrLn contents did manage to print out the HTTP header
before blocking, am I correct in coming to the conlusion that
'contents' is evaluated lazily? So Monads don't actually eliminate
laziness?
-John
On 9/20/06, Philippa Cowderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 20 S
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, John Ky wrote:
> Actually, it blocks on:
>
> >putStrLn contents
>
> It even blocks if I replace it with:
>
> >print $ length contents
>
> Is there some kind of magic happening here?
>
No, but you're trying to do magic - it can't get all of contents until the
con
Actually, it blocks on:
putStrLn contents
It even blocks if I replace it with:
print $ length contents
Is there some kind of magic happening here?
-John
On 9/20/06, John Ky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to use haskell to put together a TCP proxy I can put
between m
