[Haskell-cafe] Equivalent of if/then/else for IO Bool?

[Henk-Jan van Tuyl]

You can use 'when' or 'unless' from the module Control.Monad, but they  
each have only one branch, see:
http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html#unless
and
http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html#when

You can create a monadic 'if' like this (in an interactive session):
Control.Monad> let ifM p a b = do { p' <- p; if p' then return a else  
return b } in ifM (Just True) 1 2
Just 1

Met vriendelijke groet,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl


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  On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:34:49 +0100, Dougal Stanton <ithika at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Is there some sort of equivalent of the if/then/else construct for use
> in the IO monad? For instance the following can get quite tedious:
>
>> do bool <- doesFileExist filename
>>    if bool
>>    then sth
>>    else sth'
>
> Is there a more compact way of writing that? Something akin to:
>
>> condM (doesFileExist filename) (sth) (sth')
>
> Or maybe there's a more sensible way of doing the above that I've
> missed. I seem to use endless alternate conditions sometimes and there's
> bound to be a better way.
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