Re: [Haskell-beginners] general structuring of "foreach" logic in IO

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:41 AM, John M. Dlugosz wrote:

(And that begs the question of why getArgs needs to be monadic in the first place. It doesn't change its value; it's a strict constant at run-time, and not knowing it at compile time is my problem how?)

But it is the *compiler's* problem. "Constant" means "known at compile time" to the compiler. Although I wonder if you'd be happier with getArgs >>= mapM_ (do ...). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net