[Haskell-beginners] general structuring of "foreach" logic in IO

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:41 AM, John M. Dlugosz
<ngnr63q02 at sneakemail.com>wrote:

> (And that begs the question of why getArgs needs to be monadic in the
> first place.  It doesn't change its value; it's a strict constant at
> run-time, and not knowing it at compile time is my problem how?)


But it is the *compiler's* problem. "Constant" means "known at compile
time" to the compiler.

Although I wonder if you'd be happier with getArgs >>= mapM_ (do ...).

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