[Haskell-beginners] Why getArgs is in the IO monad

[Mike Meyer]

>
>
> From: "John M. Dlugosz" <ngnr63q02 at sneakemail.com>
> (And that begs the question of why getArgs needs to be monadic in the
> first place.  It
> doesn't change its value; it's a strict constant at run-time, and not
> knowing it at
> compile time is my problem how?)
>

Actually, the value of the arguments can be changed - at least on some
platforms. They are writable from C, if nothing else. What should getArgs
do if some ffi changes the arguments before it's called?

Mike
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