[Haskell-beginners] purely functional (non-monadic) alternativesfor Haskell animations in _The Haskell School of Expression_?

[Bayley, Alistair]

> From: beginners-bounces at haskell.org 
> [mailto:beginners-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Chaddaï Fouché
> 
> 2008/8/13 Benjamin L. Russell <DekuDekuplex at yahoo.com>:
> >>P.S. Yes, I have read Paul's book and I think Haskell has something
> >>to it.
> >>You may be surprised to learn, however, that world.ss animations are
> >>purely functional while Haskell animations (in Paul's book) 
> are actually
> >>quasi-imperative. That is, they are using monads and carry the
> >>imperativeness
> >>on their sleeves.
> >
> > In response to this claim, does anybody know how to rewrite Hudak's
> > SOE animations so that they do not use monads and are "purely
> > functional?"
> 
> First, monad /= imperative
> It is important to establish this distinction which doesn't seem to be
> very clear in some minds...

I think Matthias Felleisen probably understands this, but I could be wrong...

I had a quick scan of the SOE source and it looks as though all of the graphics operations are in IO (). I don't see why you couldn't rearrange it so that describing shapes was purely functional, while rendering was still IO () (required by OpenGL, I assume), but it looks like it could be quite a bit of work.

For animation, perhaps look at Conal Elliot's functional reactive work, but I don't know how usable it is:
  http://conal.net/

Alistair
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