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eklavya on Oct 7, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Land of Lisp

Wouldn’t it be more apt to say that side effects are not secondary citizens in haskell republic and they have first class support?

endgame on Oct 7, 2017 [–]

Yes, and the whole io-commands-as-values thing that outdoes anything the Command Design Pattern is capable of, and all that.

But given that the meme of haskell-has-no-side-effects exists, the Haskell Police State is funny.

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