On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 01:09 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Hello Jonathan, > > Thursday, August 28, 2008, 12:57:19 AM, you wrote: > > >> 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? > > IORefs got their names because they are implemented in IO monad :)
But why are they implemented in the IO monad? jcc _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
