On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 23:20 +0200, Daniel Fischer wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2008 22:57 schrieb Jonathan Cast:
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 00:53 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Jonathan,
Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 8:12:42 PM, you wrote:
* I wonder why that name was chosen? The design doesn't seem to have anything to do with IO, it's more of a `we have this in C so we want it in Haskell too' monad.
s/it/exchange with external world, i.e., essentially, I/O/
Bald assertion. I don't buy it. What do IORefs have to do with exchange with the external world?
jcc
Well, you wrote <snip>
change your IO monad* <snip> * I wonder why that name was chosen? The design doesn't seem to have anything to do with IO, it's more of a `we have this in C so we want it in Haskell too' monad.
I believe, Bulat took it to include getLine, readFile, writeFile et al.
These things existed in Haskell 1.0, before IORefs ever did. jcc