possible to make some output in do notation and then return a String in haskell?
is it possible in haskell, to make some operations live output and then return a string with a function like:
test :: String -> String
test x开发者_JAVA技巧 = do
putStrLn x
-- make some stuff
return "abc"
Yes it is. But then, your function test
must be an IO
function too. So you have to write test :: String -> IO String
as it's type instead. Also, the usage is different then. You have to „Unwrap“ the value first:
-- instead of
if (test string == "abc") then ...
-- you have to write
do string' <- test string -- unwrap
if (string' == "abc") then ...
I can understand, that there is sometimes the need to print a debug message somewhere deep inside a pure computation. For this special usecase, there is the function trace
from Debug.Trace
. It has the type trace :: String -> a -> a
, it prints out it's first argument and then returns it second. This is often useful, if you write a complicated program and want to verify it works. But beware: You cannot predict when the message is printed or whether it is printed. It may appear once twice or not at all, depending on the compilers mood.
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