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Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: what is inverse of mzero and return?
From: ajb () spamcop ! net
Date: 2005-01-25 5:23:39
Message-ID: 20050125002339.cez9jjwqo04o0484 () webmail ! spamcop ! net
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G'day all.
Quoting Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer@web.de>:
> The sad truth is that IO actions in general aren't well defined entities
> (unless we index them with the space-time-coordinates of their invocation).
Not really. One of the ways that IO used to be implemented (still might
be on some Haskell systems) was as a term language which was effectively
interpreted by the run-time system. You could, in principle, define Eq
on such a term language, assuming that there weren't any non-Eq values
in subterms. So the question is relevant.
> If you cannot agree, I have another question: is
>
> return 4 >> return 5 == return 5
>
> true in the IO-Monad?
It sure is:
return 4 >> return 5
== return 4 >>= \x -> return 5 (defn of >>)
== (\x -> return 5) 4 (return-bind law)
== return 5
Now what was the question again?
Cheers,
Andrew Bromage
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