Daniel Fischer
It has been known to call such things 'computations',
I think "actions" has been used, too, but perhaps mostly for things in IO and similar monads?
as opposed to 'values', and even to separate the categories of types and expressions which deliver the two.
As usual, that only works part of the time. [1,4,15,3,7] is not a computation, it's a list of numbers. A plain and simple everyday value.
But isn't a value of (IO String) equally plain and simple? I think I prefer (as somebody suggested) "monadic value", so that (if you want to stress this aspect of its use) the list is a monadic Int value in the [] monad, while getLine is a monadic String value in the IO monad, and so on. Maybe. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants