[Haskell-beginners] database question

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 9/18/10 16:30 , Gaius Hammond wrote:
> Oh, but I am already in the IO monad there aren't I.... And doQuery *isn't*
> but I have declared that it *should be* (e.g. an instance of typeclass
> MonadIO). Is that accurate?

You're in ReaderT at that point.  If you "lift" a monadic expression from
there, it will be run in WriterT.

Since IO must always be at the base(*) of any stack of monad transformers it
is used in, the MonadIO class provides a convenience function liftIO that
lifts its argument directly to the IO monad without having to step through
any intermediates.

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* we call it "lifting" but we also claim IO is at the base of the stack, and
I at least usually expect a base to be at the bottom.  Nice and confusing :)

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