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		laureny on July 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the world needs Haskell > Thus the lack of IO in a function's type assures you, reliably, that the function does not cause side effects No. IO is not the only monad encoding side effects.

tmoertel on July 10, 2013 [–]

Indeed. To be precise, I should have written that the lack of X in a function's type assures you that the function does not cause X effects.

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