Stack usage with a state monad

[Joe Thornber]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:28:11PM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:54:18AM +0900, Koji Nakahara wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think the problem is in the State Monad itself;
> > State Monad is lazy to compute its state.
> > 
> > I am not a haskell expert, and there may be better ideas.  But anyhow,
> > when I use these >>>= and >>> instead of >>= and >>, 
> > your example runs fine.  I hope it becomes some help.
> > 
> > m >>>= k = State $ \s -> let (a, s') = runState m s
> > 			in	s `seq` runState (k a) s' -- force evaluation of the state
> > 
> > m >>> k = m >>>= \_ -> k
> 
> Ahh, right. So I didn't have to use UnboxedState. StrictState would do.


Thankyou both for your help, I wouldn't have thought of changing the
State monad itself.  I guess I've got lots more to learn :)

- Joe