Sometimes during travels I check whether it is raining. At home.
Keep the box running.
I/O actions are like boxes with little feet that go out and fetch some value from the outside world for us.
Miran Lipovača: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - Functors, Applicative Functors and Monoids
We are under attack.
1 cyclist is killed in Sao Paulo every week
(source)
Nobody hits the hitters.
Over the next week, it just got worse. Two or three times a day I’d be deep in thought, trying to focus on this tangled plotting that I needed to resolve, and some woman would tap me on the shoulder to offer me a cup of coffee. I couldn’t concentrate, because sometimes they were very insistent: “You sure you don’t want a coffee, sweetie?” they’d ask, sometimes lurking over me after I’d refused them, just in case I changed my mind. Sometimes they just bought the coffee for me anyway, without even asking me ...
Alles Lüge.
[data Int#] like everything else in
GHC.Prim
is really a lie.