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Sure, synchronous XHTMLHttpRequest.send() is an example https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/send https://developer.mozilla.org/en-U

by tome 5y ago

Sure, synchronous XHTMLHttpRequest.send() is an example https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/send https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequ... Certainly it's not idiomatic but that's not lmm's point. The point is that it's possible. In Haskell it's not possible.

tinco 5y ago
Sure it's possible, you can use unsafePerformIO just fine in Haskell. It's idiomatic to not use it, just like it's idiomatic to not use synchronous I/O in JavaScript. Imo it's also not really interesting to talk about non idiomatic use of a language but I guess we disagree there.
- tome 5y ago
  It seems to me that there is a qualitative difference between having synchronous HTTP requests in the JavaScript standard library and having access to System.IO.Unsafe.unsafePerformIO in Haskell. Still, I take your point that in theory JavaScript could remove all synchronous I/O side effecting functions and replace them with continuation-based ones. Anyway, we've wandered pretty far off the main thread, which wasn't mine to begin with, so I'll let lmm take up the discussion again if he wants.