[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Top Level <-

[Jonathan Cast]

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 01:09 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Jonathan,
> 
> Thursday, August 28, 2008, 12:57:19 AM, you wrote:
> 
> >> s/it/exchange with external world, i.e., essentially, I/O/
> 
> > Bald assertion.  I don't buy it.  What do IORefs have to do with
> > exchange with the external world?
> 
> IORefs got their names because they are implemented in IO monad :)

But why are they implemented in the IO monad?

jcc