Hi Zongzhe,
You can indeed write "Maybe a -> a" function easy, because you have Maybe constructors exported for you. But please note that this will lead to non-total function, e.g. it will have to return an error in case of call with Nothing, so you should avoid writing and using functions like this.
IO case is even less safe, since IO is a special monad (its constructor is not exported), and you should want to do something like this even less, but still, you have functions like unsafePerformIO that have type "IO a -> a". But most probably if you need it -- you're doing something wrong.
If you got to "IO a" value -- you should continue writing functions that operate in IO, and if you want to apply pure function to inner value, you can do it like this:
main = do
i <- ioIntVal
let newIntVal = myPureIntFunc i
putStrLn (show i)
Hi
i have a question about IO monad.
Sometimes IO do something and return something, i wonder if the return type, for example is IO Int means it will return an int, could i purely fetch the int?
but i fail, i cannot construct a function, i use do notation but i found i must use something to pass the int to another monad.
But i could write a function has the type of Maybe a -> a and it is easily.
Maybe monad and IO monad both instance monad but why i can’t do that?
Zongzhe Yuan
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