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<p>I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean that IO is not a monad because
equivalence of values cannot be defined? Or is it something
deeper? <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/11/2018 05:19 PM, Conal Elliott
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<div dir="ltr">> <span
style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">The
fact that you can define the IO monad in Haskell was quite a
revelation.</span>
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<div>But it's *not* a fact. It's a lie. And one of the most
devious sort, since the source code appears to agree. The
purported definition couldn't possibly explain concurrency.<br>
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Vanessa McHale <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<p>I find it quite elegant! The fact that you can
define the IO monad in Haskell was quite a
revelation. And it's especially nice when paired
with a demonstration of C FFI (where you might
*need* to sequence side effects such as freeing a
value after it has been read).<br>
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<pre><span></span><a name="m_297526233649517979_line-175" moz-do-not-send="true"></a><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-keyword">newtype</span><span> </span><a name="m_297526233649517979_IO" moz-do-not-send="true"></a><a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-prim-0.5.2.0/docs/src/GHC.Types.html#IO" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-identifier">IO</span></a><span> </span><a name="m_297526233649517979_local-6989586621679009802" moz-do-not-send="true"></a><a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-prim-0.5.2.0/docs/src/GHC.Types.html#local-6989586621679009802" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-identifier">a</span></a><span> </span><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-glyph">=</span><span> </span><a name="m_297526233649517979_IO" moz-do-not-send="true"></a><a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-prim-0.5.2.0/docs/src/GHC.Types.html#IO" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-identifier">IO</span></a><span> </span><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-special">(</span><a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-prim-0.5.2.0/docs/src/GHC.Prim.html#State%23" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-identifier m_297526233649517979hs-type">State#</span></a><span> </span><a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-prim-0.5.2.0/docs/src/GHC.Prim.html#RealWorld" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-identifier m_297526233649517979hs-type">RealWorld</span></a><span> </span><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-glyph">-></span><span> </span><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-special">(#</span><span> </span><a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-prim-0.5.2.0/docs/src/GHC.Prim.html#State%23" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-identifier m_297526233649517979hs-type">State#</span></a><span> </span><a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-prim-0.5.2.0/docs/src/GHC.Prim.html#RealWorld" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-identifier m_297526233649517979hs-type">RealWorld</span></a><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-special">,</span><span> </span><a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-prim-0.5.2.0/docs/src/GHC.Types.html#local-6989586621679009802" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-identifier m_297526233649517979hs-type">a</span></a><span> </span><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-special">#)</span><span class="m_297526233649517979hs-special">)</span><span></span></pre>
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07/11/2018 09:14 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:<br>
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<pre>In a few weeks I'm giving a talk to a bunch of genomics folk at the Sanger
Institute<a class="m_297526233649517979moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.sanger.ac.uk/" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><https://www.sanger.<wbr>ac.uk/></a> about Haskell. They do lots of
programming, but they aren't computer scientists.
I can tell them plenty about Haskell, but I'm ill-equipped to answer the
main question in their minds: why should I even care about Haskell? I'm too
much of a biased witness.
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<pre>I don't much like the monad solution for side-effects, but if those guys
might have some knowledge of the horror of concurrent programming with
locks, the STM system would be a good candidate.
Stefan
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