[Haskell] Sequencing of input and output, troubles in kdevelop

[A.J. Bonnema]

Ketil Malde wrote:
> "A.J. Bonnema" <abonnema at xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
> 
>>Why doesn't kdevelop generate code, that executes the statements in
>>order? Or should I be looking at ghc? Or is it an option I am missing?
> 
> 
> GHCi behaves like Hugs.  My guess would be that kdevelop attaches
> pipes for standard input and output, and GHC or whatever backend it
> uses realizes it is not talking to a terminal, and applies buffering.

Actually, I asked kdevelop to run in an external terminal. Also, if I 
run the command "./prog" (where prog is the name), the program behaves 
the same. So, ghc should not assume anything else than having input from 
standard input....
> 
> Note that the output is constant (i.e. always the two strings), so in
> a sense they can be output at any time without changing the meaning of
> the program. 

I am not sure here. Isn't the output dependant on the input, because it 
depends on which filenames I enter? If I enter an erroneous input 
filename, the readFile should never be executed correctly. The same for 
the output filename. (I'll copy the code again for reference).

module Main where

main = do putStr "naam invoerbestand?"
	  inf <- getLine
	  txt <- readFile inf
	  putStr "naam uitvoerbestand?"
	  outf <- getLine
	  writeFile outf txt

Anyway, in my text on Haskell it says that IO creates a sort of 
imperative sublanguage within Haskell without compromising the rest of 
the modules. It uses a monad to do that.
Now, I only just started learning, so I might well be wrong, but isn't 
the point about IO that statements *are* sequence dependent and there 
*are* side-effects? F.i. the effects of "x <- getChar; y <- getChar" may 
be different from "y <- getChar; x <- getChar", because there are side 
effects. So, sequence should be important.

Well, as I said, I'm just starting......

Guus.
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