Re: Adding an ignore function to Control.Monad

Isaac Dupree schrieb:

On the other hand, maybe it's also an argument to change all the functions like forkIO from :: IO () -> IO ThreadID to :: IO a -> IO ThreadID

I mean, surely they don't rely on the value of a () return-type, other than to pass on to other places that artificially require the ()-type?

No, I think it is already bad enough, that (>>) has type (m a -> m b -> m b) instead of (m () -> m b -> m b). It is like automatically ignoring return values in C. It is too easy to ignore a result that is important.