[SilasX]

It sounds like you're saying those things are not an inherent limit of the pure functional programming model, and support it by listing ways to fix it that break the functional purity.

[jberryman]

> and support it by listing ways to fix it that break the functional purity.

I don't see anything in his post that does anything of the sort. Can you be more specific?

[gamegoblin]

The only way you're breaking functional purity is by doing IO, which none of those suggestions are doing.

[jberryman]

The point of `IO` is that using it doesn't break referential transparency.

[SilasX]

Several of them write to a file or store state in one. That's impurity, even if done "nicely".

It just feels like saying "don't talk to the outside world that way, do it this way".

[jdiez17]

The only part where I suggested to store a monad in a file is when I proposed it as a way of pausing a computation and resuming its execution at a later point in time. My mistake for mentioning the word "file", but I meant it in the abstract sense.