[Haskell-cafe] Monads, do and strictness

Victor S. Miller victorsmiller at gmail.com
Sat Jan 21 18:29:32 CET 2012


The "do" notation translates

do {x <- a;f}  into

a>>=(\x -> f)

However when we're working in the IO monad the semantics we want requires that the lambda expression be strict in its argument.  So is this a special case for IO?  If I wanted this behavior in other monads is there a way to specify that?

Victor

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