Re: [Haskell-cafe] seq - RTFM?

On 21/07/06, Dusan Kolar wrote:

Prelude> putStr "Ahoj\n" Ahoj Prelude> putStr "Ahoj\n" `seq` 3+3 6 Prelude> :q Leaving GHCi.

And not

Prelude> putStr "Ahoj\n" Ahoj Prelude> putStr "Ahoj\n" `seq` 3+3 Ahoj 6

Well, I understand that seq evaluates the first argument. But the result of evaluating putStr is a monadic action. Not execution of that action. Regards, Piotr Kalinowski -- Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes