[Haskell-cafe] IO is not a monad (and seq, and in general _|_)

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jan 23, 2007, at 15:34 , Neil Mitchell wrote:

> prove/compute anything you couldn't before. While removing _|_ from
> the language does make some things nicer to reason about, there aren't
> many corners where _|_ really gets in the way that much - seq being
> one of those few corners.

But that is exactly the problem:  `seq` forces _|_ to get into the  
way, when it normally doesn't.  So I'm not clear that trying to fit  
`seq` into a formalization of Haskell's semantics is the way to go.

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