On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Richard O'Keefe <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> There isn't any "application f e".
> Any human reader who does that is simply WRONG to do so.
>

Sorry, should have written f*

>
> In your fragmentary example, <monster computation> may be discarded
> EVEN IF it contains IO expressions, it's only if they are linked into
> the IO chain using >> and/or >>= that the environment will perform
> their values.
>

Thanks.  I see the error of my ways.  So, IO expressions must be evaluated
if they are in the chain leading to main.

-gregg
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