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

Jonathan Cast jonathanccast at fastmail.fm
Wed Aug 27 17:55:10 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:50 -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 01:23 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> > Hello Jonathan,
> > 
> > Thursday, August 28, 2008, 1:11:35 AM, you wrote:
> > >> IORefs got their names because they are implemented in IO monad :)
> > 
> > > But why are they implemented in the IO monad?
> > 
> > because they need its features.

Oh, and by the way: what `features' of IO do IORefs use?  Other than the
fact that IO can implement anything in C, of course.

jcc




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