Hello Dan, Sunday, December 17, 2006, 5:46:57 PM, you wrote:
> sum <- newIORef 0 > why in the world would you write a summation function like that? gui/db libs are imperative ones and using them you need to deal with a lot of mutable values. this example shows that programming with mutable data is less better done in C than in Haskell - imperative language has a lot of syntax sugar which allows automatic generation of all those readIORef/writeIORef calls (or their equivalents) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
