Coursework office hour

15 October 2010

There are no lectures next week, and you should work on your coursework investigation. If you have questions or problems you wish to raise, you can bring them to me on Wednesday afternoon.

Office Hour: 2-3pm Wednesday 20 October, Informatics Forum 5.04, Ian Stark

If the turnstile gates are closed and your student card does not open them, ask at the front desk for admission.

Otherwise, please post any questions here on the blog or by email either to the mailing list apl-students@inf.ed.ac.uk or to me Ian.Stark@ed.ac.uk.


Lecture 8: Monads and I/O

15 October 2010

Leading on from the slides by Peyton Jones, this lecture sets out how constructor classes and higher-order functions can help to treat effectful computation within a pure functional language; or potentially contain its influence within an imperative one.

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