[Haskell-cafe] Converting IO [XmlTree] to [XmlTree]

Lennart Augustsson lennart at augustsson.net
Tue Apr 14 13:19:54 EDT 2009


Never answer such newbie questions with unsafePerformIO.
That's the wrong answer 99.99% of the time, but giving it to a newbie
they might follow your advice.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Cristiano Paris <frodo at theshire.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:54 PM, rodrigo.bonifacio
> <rodrigo.bonifacio at uol.com.br> wrote:
>> Dear Sirs,
>>
>> I guess this is a very simple question. How can I convert IO [XmlTree] to
>> just a list of XmlTree?
>
> Quick and dirty answer: unsafePerformIO.
>
> That's an easy finding on Hoogle:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=IO+a+-%3E+a
>
> Anyhow, as the name suggest, the function is "unsafe", so you better
> know what you're doing.
>
> Bye,
>
> Cristiano
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