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Re:IO Monad Considered Harmful by platz on Friday January 23, 2015 @02:22AM (#8933774)
Yes, you'll need them to build up bigger programs. The point is they aren't fundamental to IO itself.
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Re:IO Monad Considered Harmful by rjberry on Friday January 23, 2015 @03:31AM (#8933920)
They pretty much are as without sequencing you can only do the most trivial thing (a single IO action). Most interesting programmes are going to need at least two IO actions.
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