[Haskell-cafe] Re: unsafeInterleaveIO respecting order of actions

[David Menendez]

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
<allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
> On 2009 Jan 1, at 20:08, David Menendez wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Achim Schneider <barsoap at web.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> There are no lazy monads. Monads imply explicit sequencing...
>>
>> Huh? How are you defining "lazy monad"?
>
>
> We've had this discussion before; somewhere in the archives is an example of
> a State monad doing things in data-driven order instead of the apparently
> "explicit" monadic sequencing.  Monads don't insure sequencing unless
> designed to do so (as, for example, IO).

Certainly. I asked because Achim might have been making a point about
about call-by-need versus call-by-value, or something.

-- 
Dave Menendez <dave at zednenem.com>
<http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>