Sorry to spam you Jeff, again I sent my email to the poster rather than the list. I'm using Yahoo beta webmail and don't see a way to set it to reply to the list rather than the originator. Anyway, this was my post:
Hence the need to perform a "run" operation like runIdentity, evalState or runParser (for Parsec) to get something useful to happen. Except for lists we don't seem to do this. I suppose lists are so simple that the operators :, ++ and the [] constructor do all we ever need with them. Finally there is no runIO because "main" is essentially that function in every real program? - Greg
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