On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Georg Martius wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 19:17:53 +0100, Alastair Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm just wondering, why haven't process properties (such as the command > >> line arguments, or the parent process id), which are inherently global, > >> been made global values in the Haskell standard? You could avoid > >> needlessly carrying around these values, you wouldn't need to lift some > >> functions into the IO monad... > > Why do you need to lift function into IO monad? You just let you give the parameters > in the main, which is IO () anyway, and then you can pass the ordinary values to the > functions that depend on them.
Er, I meant, you need an IO action to get the value, thus a function needs to be monadic to get that value. Of course you can also pass it as an argument instead. Cheers, V.W. -- Volker Wysk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.volker-wysk.de _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
