Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How to do this in FP way?

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Achim Schneider wrote:

We have to resort to IO actions to get the time, and to IORefs because we need to chain up different calls to getCurrentTime using the IO Monad. The rest of the program can work with whatever you like best.

Isn't (StateT s IO a) the cleaner alternative to IORef?