how to convert IO String to string---- still have questions

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:50:43 +0100, Nick Name <nick.name@inwind.it> wrote:

>On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 20:42:31 +0000
>Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net> wrote:
>
>> Even if Haskell were strict, you still wouldn't be able to treat I/O
>>  operations as functions without discarding referential transparency.
>
>Yes, but if haskell were strict, it wouldn't really need referential
>transparency, that's why I mentioned lazyness.

Referential transparency is still useful in strict languages. I sometimes
use updatable references in ML but find myself having to think very
carefully whether what I'm doing is safe. Of course the need is rather
greater in lazy languages.

Ganesh