[Haskell-cafe] A Question about IO monad

[Zongzhe Yuan]

Hi
i have a question about IO monad.
Sometimes IO do something and return something, i wonder if the return type, for example is IO Int means it will return an int, could i purely fetch the int?
but i fail, i cannot construct a function, i use do notation but i found i must use something to pass the int to another monad.
But i could write a function has the type of Maybe a -> a and it is easily.
Maybe monad and IO monad both instance monad but why i can’t do that?


Zongzhe Yuan



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