Peter Simons wrote:
In my humble
opinion, it's unfortunate that many tutorials and
introductionary texts leave the impression that monadic code
would be something utterly different than "normal" Haskell
code. I feel it intimidates the reader by making a monad
appear like black magic, even though it's little more than
syntactic sugar to describe implicit function arguments.
I'm scared of monads :) I really don't know what a monad is. All I know
is that you need it for IO because IO implies side-effects and I know
that "Monad" is a very scary-looking word :)
If we'd have an opaque "World" type instead of the IO monad,
'putStrLn' would be:
putStrLn :: String -> World -> World
That seems less scary.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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