[Haskell] Re: Why is getArgs in the IO monad?

[Ketil Malde]

Ben Rudiak-Gould <Benjamin.Rudiak-Gould at cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> How is this different from any other environmental change, such as a change
> in the program arguments?

Isn't this really the old (or fairly recent) discussion of "top level
things with identity"?  Should one be able to do something like

       args :: [String]
       args <- getArgs

at the top level?

-kzm
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