[Haskell-cafe] Reader monad, implicit parameters, or something else altogether?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Aug 18, at 10:59, Bjorn Buckwalter wrote:
> I would like to know if there is any consensus on what is the best way
> to make such a data structure accessible in pure functions. Passing it
> explicitly would be a mess. It seems that two options are to use
> either a Reader monad or implicit parameters. Using a Reader monad is
> straight forward enough though it requires writing/converting code
> in/to monadic style and adds some clutter to the formulae. It seems
> implicit parameters could be cleaner but I've seen them referred to as
> everything from evil to "just what you need" and rendering the Reader
> monad obsolete...
>
> What do you people recommend?


Last time I ran into this, I needed a Reader for other reasons so just  
reused it.

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