>>>> IO a ~ World -> (a, World)
>>> I still don't understand this; we are passing a World and getting a
>>> World back,
>> We are? Why do you think that?
> Because that's what (World -> (a,World)) means, last I checked.
No: Hasekll functions are partial, which means that "a -> b" means
"takes an object of type `a' and if it terminates, it returns an object
of type `b'". Note the "if it terminates".
Since neither loop nor loop' terminate, their return type is
actually meaningless.
Stefan
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