[Haskell-cafe] Question about IO, interact functions,

Jason Dusek jason.dusek at gmail.com
Tue May 19 14:37:34 EDT 2009


2009/05/19 David Leimbach <leimy2k at gmail.com>:
> ...I'm concerned that relying on a pure function like
> "unlines . lines" to sequence IO is a bit too implicit in nature.

  You aren't relying on `unlines . lines` to do the sequencing;
  you're relying on them to process a string. That the
  characters of the string come in order has everything to do
  with `getContents`, which is trustworthy.

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Jason Dusek


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