[Haskell-cafe] GHCi and State

[Henning Thielemann]

> On 25.06.2010 11:07, corentin.dupont at ext.mpsa.com wrote:
>
>> 2. For now, the game is more or less playable in GHCi. But my concern is:
>> When you use GHCi, you are in the IO monad, right? How to had state to this
>> monad?
>> I would like that the player can compose his rule in GHCi, and when he is
>> done, he can submit it in GHCi with something like:
>> 
>> *Nomic>  submitRule<myrule>

You can use IORefs for this purpose. However you have to initialize the 
IORef before running the first action and then you must pass the IORef to 
every subsequent action.