[Haskell-cafe] Errors in non-monadic code

[Tom Ellis]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 02:20:23PM -0400, jabolopes at google.com wrote:
> Yeah, non-monadic is not the best term... The problem is that it's
> always so hard to communicate when you want to say a total function
> that is not in the context of the IO monad. There should be a simple,
> short name for these functions, so we can easily talk about them.

Why, what would be different in your question for a non-total function or
one in the context of the IO monad?

Tom