Hello all. I'm new to functional programming and Haskell, but have been programming in C and Java for a while. I've been going through the tutorials and whatnot on haskell.org. I've read from the Gentle Introduction to Haskell about IO and some of the other stuff and I have a question about it. main = do putStr "Type Something: " str <- getLine putStrLn ("You typed: " ++ str) When compile and run this code the "Type Something: " isn't displayed until the putStrLn. So there is no prompt. The output looks like this. s Type Something: You typed: s But if I change the putStr "Type Something: " to a putStrLn or put a \n at the end of the string it displays the text immediately (ie, when I want it to). Is there a good reason for this? Am I doing something wrong? Or do I need to call some kind of standard output flush? Thanks. Oh, I'm using ghc. Matt -- "Not everone knows Josiah Royce's definition of a liar as a man who willfully misplaces his ontological predicates, but everyone who has ever told a lie will recognize its accuracy." Ch. 94: Truth - "The Great Ideas: A Synopticon of Great Books of the Western World"