On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 22:40 +0100, legajid wrote:
Hello, i wrote the following (very simplified) program :
word :: [Char] word="initial" letters=['a'..'z']
myloop = do myloop2
word from topmost declaration (="initial") if it was used
myloop2 = do putStrLn word
word from topmost declaration (="initial")
putStrLn letters
main = do putStrLn "Enter the word" word <- enter_word word="abcdefghij" and is local variable/constant. myloop
enter_word= do return("abcdefghij")
"word" is initially binded to the value "initial" myloop, calling myloop2, displays this value "Improving" my program, i add "main" that enters a new value for "word" (here a fix one, ideally a getLine) To display this new value, i must call myloop with this parameter, which is then passed to myloop2. Is there a way to make a "global binding ?", thus changing the value of "word", so that i don't have to modify the code for myloop and myloop2 (now being passed a parameter), that worked fine. This would make the program modular and easy to modify, without modifying all existing functions. Or is it non-sense in Haskell ?
It is practically 'non-sense' and would make a program less modular. If function depends on some value make it an argument. Generally you should avoid IO as much as possible.
Thanks, Didier.
Regards PS. Actually it is possible to do it with global variables but: 1. It uses an extentions 2. You should know why in most cases it is not what you want 3. It requires some knoledge about compilation process as 'officially' (w/out extention) it is nondeterministic.