[Haskell-cafe] class Ref...

[Gracjan Polak]

Hi,

I the paper of Magnu Carlsson I noticed small, interesting class:

class Monad m => Ref m r | m -> r where
     newRef :: a -> m (r a)
     readRef :: r a -> m a
     writeRef :: r a -> a -> m ()

He defined it locally, but it seems to be very useful generalization of 
IORef and STRef. Is there something like this in standard libraries? I 
couldn't find it... :( Is there any reason why isn't it included?

Another question: priority queue. In libraries bundled with ghc we have 
Data.Queue, but I couldn't find PriorityQueue. Is there somewhere an 
implementation that everybody uses, but is not in the library?

Thanks!

-- 
Gracjan