[Haskell-cafe] Haskell and State Monad.

[Jules Bean]

VinyleEm wrote:
> Hello all, I am Vinay Emani, new to this forum. I am doing an academic
> project of writing an assembler cum linker in Haskell as part of building a
> compiler set written entirely in Haskell. Since i am new to the language, i
> thought it would do me good to look at some of the existing haskell code, be
> it in whatever project and written for whatever purpose. This should help me
> get started.  In particular i need to find some project/program which
> extensively uses the State Monad. I tried looking at some of the existing
> open source projects at sourceforge. There are only limited number of
> projects there, some of them being incomplete. Could you please suggest me
> some project, from which i can learn the State Monad. 


Lambdabot (which is an IRC bot) uses a custom Monad which, IIRC, 
contains State.

It's quite a substantial program and not one you can understand in a 
single glance, but it could be useful to you to learn from.

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/lambdabot.html

Jules