[Haskell-cafe] Re: Can we come out of a monad?

[Ivan Miljenovic]

On 2 August 2010 14:47, Lyndon Maydwell <maydwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought it was pure as, conceptually, readFile isn't 'run' rather it
> constructs a pure function that accepts a unique world state as a
> parameter. This might be totally unrealistic, but this is how I see IO
> functions remaining pure. Is this a good mental model?

That is what I believe Ertugrul is aiming at, but I believe that that
is a "rule-lawyering" interpretation in trying to argue that all of
Haskell is pure.  We could use this same argument to state that _all_
programming languages are pure, as they too have implict "World" state
variables that get passed around.

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