[Haskell-beginners] IO and purity

[Kim-Ee Yeoh]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Jakob Holderbaum <mailings at jakob.io> wrote:

> I am myself an absolute beginner in Haskell and Functional Thinking so I
> hope to get some constructive feedback on my mental image of this situation.


When you write: "From the perspective of the programm, you just call a
function without argument that returns a string"

you veer close to the lousy thinking that Everything is a Function. Conal
Elliott did the delousing here:

http://conal.net/blog/posts/everything-is-a-function-in-haskell

Have a read, and if you're not convinced, come back here and ask for more
help.

-- Kim-Ee
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