On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Nathan Hüsken <nathan.huesken@posteo.de> wrote:

Mmh, I might not have used haskell terminology correctly. Its a function, in the sense of a function of an imperative language ...

Yes, you could model IO String in C as a function taking void and returning a pointer to char.

Calling an IO String a Haskell function would confuse a lot of people.

-- Kim-Ee