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MatthewPhillips on July 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stunned by Go

I was referring to the fact that this function mutates the state of one of its arguments.

marshray on July 18, 2013 [–]

But so does Read(), right?

Even in Haskell I'd be calling the HTTP thingy in the context of the IO monad.

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