Chris Angelico wrote:
There's one other consideration. With Python functions, you often want
to run a function for its side effects and ignore its return value.
You can't just ignore a return value in Haskell. The
return value is always going *somewhere*. If you leave
off an argument, the result is going to be a function
instead of whatever type the function was meant to
return. Since Haskell is statically-typed, this will
give you a type error at some point.
print("Heading")
print("=======")
print
You're talking about I/O here, which complicates things
somewhat. Essentially, the equivalent of 'print' is
going to be a function that takes the value to be
printed and returns another function of a specific
type. If it's not the right type, it won't fit into
the machinery that executes I/O operations. So leaving
the argument off the print would lead to a type error,
because you'd be trying to plug the print function
itself into the I/O machine, and it's not the right
type.
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