[Haskell-cafe] State monad strictness - how?

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Yitzchak,

Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 12:02:25 PM, you wrote:

> Unfortunately, the current situation is that State is only
> available as a lazy monad, and StateT is only available
> as a strict monad.

> At the very least, the two should be consistent. I
> would much prefer for them both to be lazy.

imho, lazy monads (as any other lazy things) is a source of beginner's
confusion. therefore it may be better to provide "default" monads as strict
and lazy ones - for one who knows what he wants - with a Lazy prefix, e.g.
LazyST, LazyState...

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com