On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 00:53 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Hello Jonathan, > > Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 8:12:42 PM, you wrote: > > > * I wonder why that name was chosen? The design doesn't seem to have > > anything to do with IO, it's more of a `we have this in C so we want it > > in Haskell too' monad. > > s/it/exchange with external world, i.e., essentially, I/O/
Bald assertion. I don't buy it. What do IORefs have to do with exchange with the external world? jcc _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
