Re: [Haskell-beginners] [Haskell-cafe] select :: [(Float, a)] -> a -- Weighted stochastic selection - help?

5 Sep 2008

      IO is a special case, I'll grant you that. But I thought all other
monads were considered pure. State is just a wrapped up function,
basically. Nothing impure about that.

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Daniel Fischer  wrote:
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Am Freitag, 5. September 2008 21:06 schrieb C.M.Brown:
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Some Monads (such as State and IO) allow side effects and are
therefore not pure.
State allows side effects? How that?
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HTH,
Chris.
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Andrew Wagner wrote:
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... in a purely functional way, i.e. no monads.
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Err, what? Monads aren't purely functional?