Portability | portable |
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Stability | experimental |
Maintainer | ross@soi.city.ac.uk |
Safe Haskell | Safe-Inferred |
Classes for monad transformers.
A monad transformer makes new monad out of an existing monad, such
that computations of the old monad may be embedded in the new one.
To construct a monad with a desired set of features, one typically
starts with a base monad, such as Identity
, []
or IO
, and
applies a sequence of monad transformers.
Most monad transformer modules include the special case of applying the
transformer to Identity
. For example, State s
is an abbreviation
for StateT s Identity
.
Each monad transformer also comes with an operation run
XXX to
unwrap the transformer, exposing a computation of the inner monad.