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

[Federico Brubacher]

Hey Benjamin, I solved the quiz myself but would you mind posting your code
again so I can compare ??
Thanks a ton

Federico

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Benjamin L. Russell <DekuDekuplex at yahoo.com
> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:14:46 +0100, "Chaddai Fouche"
> <chaddai.fouche at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >2008/8/13 Bayley, Alistair <Alistair.Bayley at invesco.com>:
> >>> 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 think so too, but we're on Haskell-beginners and the formulation was
> >much too ambiguous to let it pass, I would prefer that beginners in
> >Haskell don't start with the idea that Monad are always imperative,
> >it's already too current a misunderstanding.
>
> Can you recommend any specific examples to illustrate this point to a
> programmer/educator from a Scheme background arguing that specific
> libraries in world.ss are more functional than the monadic examples
> for animations in SOE?
>
> If possible, I would like to write a rebuttal to his claim, using
> specific examples.
>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> >That's unfortunate. Of course IO (or some FRP hiding the IO) is still
> >required to do the rendering, but it would be much nicer to split
> >those concerns.
>
> That's probably the point that Felleisen was addressing.  If functions
> have any side-effects, then they aren't purely functional, but in
> order to perform rendering, side-effects would be necessary in both
> Haskell and Scheme, so this can't be his point.  Therefore, he must be
> referring to other functions written in a more purely functional style
> in world.ss than in SOE.  In order to address his point, they would
> probably be need to be rewritten in a purely functional style.
>
> -- Benjamin L. Russell
>
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