[Haskell-cafe] A Procedural-Functional Language (WIP)

[Simon Thompson]

Miranda modelled IO as a (lazy) function from [Char] -> [Char] … pretty unwieldy to use “raw”, but it was made controllable by a set of combinators that could be seen as a proto-monadic library.

Simon Y.


> On 24 Oct 2016, at 15:50, Ronald Legere <rjljr2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I must admit to some curiosity about this as well.  My recollection was that the original approach was to use lazy streams 
> IO:: [request] -> [respose].  
> 
> This can be managed a bit better using continuations (Perhaps continuations can also be considered a separate approach?)
> 
> And now we have the IO Monad.  (which can be defined in terms of the stream based approach but is not implemented that way)
> 
> The only other approach I am aware of is Clean's "Unique types".  

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