[Haskell-cafe] How do I do conditional tail recursion in a monad?

[David F. Place]

So, the next question is: Why isn't this already in Control.Monad?

On Mar 21, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Jules Bean wrote:

> David F. Place wrote:
>> Interesting, but what if 'p' is also a monadic action?  For  
>> instance, it might access the state of the State monad which 'f'  
>> is updating.
>
> Then I'd stop trying to do it as a one-liner, I suspect:
>
> let untilM p f x = do
>  cond <- p x
>  if cond then return x
>   else do y <- f x
>           untilM p f y
>
>
>
>>
>> On Mar 21, 2007, at 5:31 AM, Jules Bean wrote:
>>
>>> ..but here 'f' is a pure function, not a monadic action. If you  
>>> want f to be a monadic action then you want:
>>>
>>> *Main> :t let untilM p f x = if p x then return x else untilM p f  
>>> =<< f x in untilM
>>> let untilM p f x = if p x then return x else untilM p f =<< f x  
>>> in untilM :: (Monad m) => (a -> Bool) -> (a -> m a) -> a -> m a
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