[Haskell-cafe] Re: Adding an ignore function to Control.Monad

Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
Sat Jul 11 05:58:42 EDT 2009


> Johan Tibell wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> I also think void is clearer than ignore.
>
> So do I. Another point is, that it's familiar from other languages; a
> function "void f(...)" doesn't return anything but may have an  
> effect on
> the environment.

+1.

Regards,
     Malcolm



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