[Haskell-beginners] Get things from IO monad

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:25 AM, aditya siram <aditya.siram at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a function called "unsafePerformIO" which subverts this by
> turning an 'IO a' into an 'a', but it's not really meant for general
> use.
>
> This frustrated me in the beginning too, but I found that if I was
> using 'unsafePerformIO' too much the design was probably bad.

If you are a beginner, you should never use anything that starts with
'unsafe'.  And you should *never* use 'unsafePerformIO'.  And you
should *NEVER* use 'unsafeCoerce'.

Cheers,  =)

-- 
Felipe.