On 2009 Apr 9, at 16:09, Luke Palmer wrote:
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Miguel Mitrofanov <[email protected] > wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by that, but semantically IO is definitely
*not* a state monad. Under any circumstances or any set of assumptions.

Ehm? Why not?

Mainly forkIO.  There may be other reasons.


I thought I had excluded that stuff to simplify the question; the fact that IO is Haskell's toxic waste dump is more or less irrelevant to the core concept.

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