[Haskell-beginners] Using IORef

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Courtney Robinson <courtney at crlog.info>wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>wrote:
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> Oh I see, thanks for the info. really helpful.
> It brings about another question now.
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> How is newIORef meant to be used so that I only have a single IORef?
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The Haskell way is to carry such things implicitly in a State or Reader
monad; since the IORef itself doesn't change, and you need the IO monad
around anyway to actually use it, you would use a ReaderT IORef IO and then
use ask >>= liftIO . readIORef to get the value and similar to write or
modify it. (Commonly one uses a type or newtype+newtype deriving to make
one's own monad combining them.)

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