[Haskell-cafe] Random question

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Sep 24, at 17:44, Iain Barnett wrote:
> On 24 Sep 2008, at 10:13 pm, Evan Laforge wrote:
>>  For one approach, check
>> out 'replicate' to make copies of something, and then 'sequence' to
>> run them and return a list.
>
> Thanks, I haven't found anything that explains 'sequence' well yet,  
> but I'll keep looking.

sequence turns a list of monadic values into a monadic list of values,  
i.e. [m a] becomes m [a].  In IO, this is [IO a] -> IO [a].  This lets  
you do something like replicate an I/O action, then turn the list of I/ 
O actions into a single I/O action on a list.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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