Re: [Haskell-cafe] Linguistic hair-splitting

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Am Donnerstag 28 Januar 2010 09:14:38 schrieb Ketil Malde:

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Daniel Fischer writes:

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As usual, that only works part of the time. [1,4,15,3,7] is not a computation, it's a list of numbers. A plain and simple everyday value.

But isn't a value of (IO String) equally plain and simple?

Sure, but saying a value of type IO String is "a computation (in the IO monad) returning a String" makes more sense to me than saying [True,False,True] is "a computation (in the [] monad) returning a Bool".

For sure, and in general when people speak of monads they're really talking about IO, true? If that's disappointing, maybe it would help to have a word for it, maybe `IO String' is an "irreduceable monadic value" or something. Donn