[Haskell-beginners] Scoping within arrow notation (using HXT)?

[Ertugrul Söylemez]

Hello there,

the structure of an arrow computation cannot depend on inputs.  All
arrow variables (to the left of '<-' or '->') are inputs to following
computations.  For instance:

    proc x1 -> do
        x2 <- c1 -< x1
        x3 <- c2 -< x2
        returnA -< f x2 x3

The variables x1, x2 and x3 are arrow variables and are out of scope
to the left of '-<', because if they were in scope, the structure of the
computation could depend on arrow variables, and you would in fact have
a monad instead of an arrow.

Note also that 'proc x -> c -< x' is the same as 'c', and 'do' notation
is an extension to 'proc' notation.

You may be interested in my (unfinished) arrow tutorial:

    <http://ertes.de/new/tutorials/arrows.html>


Greets,
Ertugrul


Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman at ironicdesign.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to use state threaded through an arrow in some HXT code to
> avoid passing explicit parameters through several layers of functions,
> but I think I'm not understanding quite what the arrow notation is
> doing, because when I try to use a value I'm extracting from the
> state, I'm getting a scope error.

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