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by dmitriid 3247 days ago
Potato potato. In the end, when the program is run, functions will be run, and side-effects will be executed.

Moreover, if you invoke these functions multiple times they will produce different results.

Hence, no strict adherence to FP principles.
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willtim 3247 days ago
> Moreover, if you invoke these functions multiple times they will produce different results

No this isn't true! Again, you clearly do not yet understand Monads. Please read Phil Wadler's paper.

What you have successfully demonstrated, is that the JavaScript snippets you have been advocating are not sufficient to understand Monads.

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empath75 3247 days ago
> if you invoke these functions multiple times they will produce different results.

the io monad is a pure function that produces impure code for the haskell runtime to execute (this isn't exactly accurate, but i think is an okay way to think about it). It will always produce the same impure code, and so is itself pure.

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dmitriid 3245 days ago
Riight. The "Platonic ideal" again. "It's not the language it's the runtime!"
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