[Haskell-cafe] combining monads with IO

[Richard Silverman]

Hi all,

I'm puzzled by something. Suppose I have some code that does lots of 
IO, and also occasionally refers to some global state. No problem, use 
ReaderT for the state, combining with the IO monad. Except... since IO 
is on the bottom, simple uses of do-notation such as "foo <- ask" work 
in the Reader monad, and to access the IO monad, I need to lift, e.g. 
(bar <- liftIO getLine). If my code does lots of IO, this is *very* 
ugly -- the code is littered with lift functions!  Is there no cleaner 
way to do this?

Thanks,

- Richard