[Haskell-cafe] On the purity of Haskell

[Iustin Pop]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 05:51:57PM +0100, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote:
> Iustin Pop::
> >In practice too:
> >
> >bar _ = do
> >    s<- readFile "/tmp/x.txt"
> >    return (read s)
> >
> >Once you're in a monad that has 'state', the return value doesn't
> >strictly depend anymore on the function arguments.
> Nice example. PLEASE, show us the trace of its execution. Then, the
> discussion might be more fruitful

Sorry?

I did the same mistake of misreading the grand-parent's "IO Int" vs.
"Int", if that's what you're referring to.

Otherwise, I'm confused as what you mean.

iustin