[Haskell-beginners] How works this `do` example?
Baa
aquagnu at gmail.com
Thu Jul 13 09:41:49 UTC 2017
I suspected that it was in Read monad, but I don't see where is it this
"Read" monad here :) Francesco, thank you very much!!
Absolutely clear :)
В Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:06:13 +0200
Francesco Ariis <fa-ml at ariis.it> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:29:56AM +0300, Baa wrote:
> > main :: IO ()
> > main = f0
> > >>= do f1
> > f2
> > >> print "end"
> >
> > and I get output:
> >
> > "f2!"
> > 10
> > "end"
>
> Hello Paul, your `main` desugars to
>
> main = f0 >>= (f1 >> f2) >> print "end"
>
> Now, the quizzical part is
>
> λ> :t (f1 >> f2)
> (f1 >> f2) :: Int -> IO Int
>
> Why does this even type checks? Because:
>
> λ> :i (->)
> [..]
> instance Monad ((->) r) -- Defined in ‘GHC.Base’
> [..]
>
> ((->) r) is an instance of Monad! The instance is:
>
> instance Monad ((->) r) where
> f >>= k = \r -> k (f r) r
>
> you already know that `m >> k` is defined as `m >>= \_ -> k`, so
>
> f >> k = \r -> (\_ -> k) (f r) r
> = \r -> k r
>
> Is it clear enough?
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