Re: [Haskell] Why is getArgs in the IO monad?

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:23:17PM -0500, Jim Apple wrote:

See subject. It seems that it would be constant through execution, and so could be just [String].

I like to think that pure functions don't change between executions. getArgs :: [String] would certainly break that. Best regards, Tomasz