[Haskell-cafe] do ghci

[Matthias Fischmann]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 05:13:13PM -0700, Greg Fitzgerald wrote:
> To: Haskell Cafe <haskell-cafe at haskell.org>
> From: Greg Fitzgerald <garious at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:13:13 -0700
> Subject: [Haskell-cafe] do ghci
> 
> Just curious, why does ghci run in the context of a 'do'?
> 
> This tripped me up when I first started learning Haskell.  It's fine once
> you know what's going on, but why the restriction?  Why can't I write the
> code below without 'let' and ':module'?
> 
> >two = 1 + 1
> >import Data.List
> >cols = transpose [[1,2,3], [4,5,6]]

If you interact with a command line, it is natural to have IO side
effects and evaluate the command lines in the order of appearance.
ghci is sort of a command line, right?

It is straight-forward enough to make up something ad hoc without
using the concept of monadic IO and memory modification, but why?

matthias
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