[Haskell-cafe] Noob question and sequence of operations (print then do something else)

[Henning Thielemann]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, John Wicket wrote:

> I am still in an imperative way of thinking.  In this example here; how
> would I call "putStrLn" and then set the function with a value.  Eg:
>
> aa :: String -> IO ()
> aa instr = do
>  putStrLn "abc"
>  putStrLn "abc"
>  return "123"

The article
   http://haskell.org/hawiki/ThatAnnoyingIoType
     contained more information, in the good old days, when Hawiki was 
still running. :-(