On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:50 -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 01:23 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > > Hello Jonathan, > > > > Thursday, August 28, 2008, 1:11:35 AM, you wrote: > > >> IORefs got their names because they are implemented in IO monad :) > > > > > But why are they implemented in the IO monad? > > > > because they need its features.
Oh, and by the way: what `features' of IO do IORefs use? Other than the fact that IO can implement anything in C, of course. jcc _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe