On 1 Aug 2010, at 11:43, Ertugrul Soeylemez wrote: > Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> No, a pure function is one without any side effects. > > There are no functions with side effects in Haskell, unless you use > hacks like unsafePerformIO. Every Haskell function is perfectly > referentially transparent, i.e. pure.
This is why we badly need a new term, say, io-pure. That means, neither has side effects, nor produces an action that when run by the runtime has side effects. Bob_______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
