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

[Jonathan Cast]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 23:20 +0200, Daniel Fischer wrote:
> 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.

These things existed in Haskell 1.0, before IORefs ever did.

jcc