[Haskell-beginners] Re: Forcing evalation in the IO Monad

Philip Scott wrote:

What I want is something like putStrLn that doesn't print anything, and takes any type as its input, evaluates it to normal form and then does nothing else. It might be called something like 'evaluate' have a type like this

evaluate :: a -> IO()

With Hoogle, you can search for types: http://haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=a+-%3E+IO+%28%29 12th result from the top. Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com