Being "in the IO monad" doesn't actually mean "doing IO". It's a bit of a badly ...

tel on Dec 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why learning Haskell makes you a better programmer

Being "in the IO monad" doesn't actually mean "doing IO". It's a bit of a badly punned name. It's more idiomatic to think of it as the RealWorld monad.