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

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2008 22:57 schrieb Jonathan Cast:
> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 00:53 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> > Hello Jonathan,
> >
> > Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 8:12:42 PM, you wrote:
> > > * I wonder why that name was chosen?  The design doesn't seem to have
> > > anything to do with IO, it's more of a `we have this in C so we want it
> > > in Haskell too' monad.
> >
> > 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?
>
> jcc
>

Well, you wrote
<snip>
> change your IO monad*
<snip>
> * I wonder why that name was chosen?  The design doesn't seem to have
> anything to do with IO, it's more of a `we have this in C so we want it
> in Haskell too' monad.

I believe, Bulat took it to include getLine, readFile, writeFile et al.