Re: [Haskell-beginners] A basic misunderstanding of how to program with IO

I might have misunderstood you, but what about using the existing interact function: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.1/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.0/Prelude.html#... And for your interact, since it is not in the IO monad, you cannot write such a function. [ don't tell him about the unsafePerformIO :) ] I am sure you'll get better answers. Best, On 8 May 2010 16:55, Ken Overton wrote:

Sorry for such a beginner-y question, but is there a way to make a function like:

interact :: String -> Resp interact txt = putStrLn txt rsp <- getLine return parseResp rsp

parseResp :: String -> Resp

Or is that simply a wrong way of programming in Haskell with IO?

Thanks (and apologies),

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