[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why?

[John D. Earle]

What I think might be confusing the situation partially is that there is a difference between the language and its implementation. Any side effect would have been accounted for even though there is a means to side step it and its inclusion may have been perceived as a undesirable and perhaps unnecessary complication. To put it bluntly, it is like how division by zero can be inconvenient.
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