[Haskell-cafe] Shooting your self in the foot with Haskell

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 01.10.2008, 16:46 -0400 schrieb John Van Enk:
> There's the well known "How to shoot your self in the foot" list which
> I have it printed and taped on my desk at work.
> 
> http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/foot.htm
> 
>  I had a co-worker ask me how you'd shoot your self in the foot with
> Haskell. Here's the best I could do:
> 
> "You shoot the gun, but the bullet gets trapped in the IO monad."

You shoot the gun, but nobody notices because no-one evaluates the
target.

Greetings,
Joachim

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