[Haskell-beginners] Re: Either Monadic Trouble

[iæfai]

This is all very confusing. You say that it is defined in the  
transformers. Does this mean it is possible to use the code I am  
trying to get to work to do what I want?

You also mention the attempt package, I must admit that I am not  
entirely sure how to use it either. Note that I haven't done a lot of  
error handling in haskell (the extent usually involved Maybe)

- iæfai.


On 2009-11-09, at 4:00 PM, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:

> Excerpts from Ertugrul Soeylemez's message of Mon Nov 09 21:44:44  
> +0100 2009:
>> Nicolas Pouillard <nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Either is not a monad, you can check this by typing
>>>>   :i Either
>>>> in GHCi; you will not see a line like
>>>>   instance Monad Either
>>>> in the result. Compare this to
>>>>   :i Maybe
>>>
>>> In fact the Either Monad instance is defined in the  
>>> 'transformers' (or
>>> 'mtl') packages.
>>
>> Either is still not a monad.  Have a look at its kind.
>
> OK, right Either is not but (Either e), where e must be in
> the Error type class.
>
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