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

Ben Rudiak-Gould <Benjamin.Rudiak-Gould@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:

How is this different from any other environmental change, such as a change in the program arguments?

Isn't this really the old (or fairly recent) discussion of "top level things with identity"? Should one be able to do something like args :: [String] args <- getArgs at the top level? -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants