On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:03 AM, J. Stutterheim <j.stutterh...@me.com> wrote:
> I have to admit that I am a bit torn about using `pure`. On the one hand, > if you actually have a pure value, it feels pretty intuitive to me. But > what about > > pure (putStrLn "Hi") > > `putStrLn "Hi"` is not a pure value... Or is there another way to > interpret the word pure in this context? > I actually have the opposite problem: what's impure about lifting 5 into Maybe or []? `pure` feels IO-targeted. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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