[Haskell-beginners] Combining IO and Either function to "EitherT e IO a"

[Tim Perry]

Kim-Ee,

If I see a function with the signature ":: IO String" I immediately assume
it is getLine or one of its ilk. Thus the Op's question doesn't seem odd at
all to me. Could you explicate on why you find this very confusing? After
all:

:Prelude> :t getLine
getLine :: IO String

I think you know a lot more about Haskell than I do so I'm curious what the
thinking behind your post was.


Thanks,

Tim


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Kim-Ee Yeoh <ky3 at atamo.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Nathan Hüsken <nathan.huesken at posteo.de>wrote:
>
>> Mmh, I might not have used haskell terminology correctly. Its a function,
>> in the sense of a function of an imperative language ...
>
>
> Yes, you could model IO String in C as a function taking void and
> returning a pointer to char.
>
> Calling an IO String a Haskell function would confuse a lot of people.
>
> -- Kim-Ee
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