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[Peter Verswyvelen]

jerzy.karczmarczuk at info.unicaen.fr wrote:
>> Yes, *different approach*. So, there *are* differences. Compilers, 
>> anyway,
>> are special applications. I wanted to see - responding to Brandon - a
>> "normal" Haskell program, which does IO without monads, that't all.
>> The problem is then when you hide something, you hide. It is possible to
>> superpose a kind of monadic framework on unique worlds, files, etc. in
>> Clean, but the reverse operation goes beyond my horizons.
>> Some examples, anybody?
>> Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Ah yes, I see what you mean now. I have no idea, I guess only 
unsafePerformIO will allow you to do something like that... But that 
will completely break referential transparency. But I really don't know. 
What do the experts have to say?