Peter Simons wrote:
In my humble opinion, it's unfortunate that many tutorials and introductionary texts leave the impression that monadic code would be something utterly different than "normal" Haskell code. I feel it intimidates the reader by making a monad appear like black magic, even though it's little more than syntactic sugar to describe implicit function arguments.
I'm scared of monads :) I really don't know what a monad is. All I know is that you need it for IO because IO implies side-effects and I know that "Monad" is a very scary-looking word :)
If we'd have an opaque "World" type instead of the IO monad, 'putStrLn' would be:
putStrLn :: String -> World -> World
That seems less scary. Cheers, Daniel. -- /\/`) http://oooauthors.org /\/_/ http://opendocumentfellowship.org /\/_/ \/_/ I am not over-weight, I am under-tall. /