[Haskell-cafe] Nested Monads Questions

[Stefan Aeschbacher]

Hi

I'm trying to understand Monad Transformers. The code below works as
expected but I have the following questions:
 - why can I use liftIO but not lift in the doSomething function?
 - why is there no liftSTM function?

now to the code:

module Main where

import Control.Monad.Reader
import Control.Monad.Writer
import Control.Concurrent.STM

type MyM a = WriterT [Entry] (ReaderT MyData IO) a
data MyData = MyData {myData::TVar String}
data Entry = Log String deriving (Eq, Show)

logMsg :: String -> MyM ()
logMsg s = tell [Log s]

doSomething :: MyM Int
doSomething = do
    dataRef <- asks myData
    logMsg "Writing"
    liftIO $ do
    --lift $ do
        mv <- atomically $ readTVar dataRef
        putStrLn mv
    logMsg "Written"
    return 1

main :: IO ()
main = do
    i <- atomically $ newTVar "2"
    log <- runReaderT (runWriterT doSomething) (MyData i)
    print log

regards and thanks

Stefan