Hallo,
On 8/14/07, Jeff Polakow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> There is clearly a problem with the Haskell/monad tutorials out there...
>
> > The tutorials seriously need to step back and start with
> > something like, "To enforce order of evaluation we evaluate
> > closures* returning a defined type. The first closure will feed
> > its result to the second which will in turn feed it's result to
> > the third. Since the third closure can't be evaluated without
> > having the results from the second and first (and thus they had
> > to be evaluated earlier in time) we get a defined evaluation
> > sequence. Here are some examples..."
> >
> The style of this description is nice; however the description itself is
> wrong.
>
> Monads DO NOT determine order of evaluation. Previous posts on this thread
> give several examples.
>
And his point was completely missed.
Cheers,
--
-alex
http://www.ventonegro.org/
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