Imperative Notation

[Johannes Waldmann]

Ana Maria Abrao wrote:

> that general mechanisms are always hard to use. Everybody should design
> his/her own clean input/output library. 

by analogy, should everybody design his/her own sorting function?
hash table implementation? etc.

i want libraries with tools (say, parser combinators) 
that are general enough (i think i agree with Ana Maria here) 
*and* i want support for combining and using these tools,
and Haskell's "do" notation provides this for monads.

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