[Haskell-cafe] Re: Doing without IORef

[Jinwoo Lee]

Thanks Bryan,
To summarize, embed IORef inside ReaderT and use that IORef to read/change
the file path info, both in IO monad and MyState monad. Is this right?

Thank you all!

jinwoo


On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:

> Jinwoo Lee wrote:
>
> > I haven't used ReaderT. What are the advantages when using ReaderT
> > instead of StateT in this case?
>
> A StateT lets you replace one IORef with another, since it gives you
> mutable state.  A ReaderT gives you *immutable* state, so the type
> system guarantees that you'll always be using the same IORef.
>
>        <b
>



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