Re: [Haskell-cafe] Shooting your self in the foot with Haskell

Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 01.10.2008, 16:46 -0400 schrieb John Van Enk:

There's the well known "How to shoot your self in the foot" list which I have it printed and taped on my desk at work.

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/foot.htm

I had a co-worker ask me how you'd shoot your self in the foot with Haskell. Here's the best I could do:

"You shoot the gun, but the bullet gets trapped in the IO monad."

You shoot the gun, but nobody notices because no-one evaluates the target. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org