[Haskell-cafe] Refactoring from State monad to ST monad, for STUArray

[Denis Bueno]

Is it possible to use the ST monad as a (drop-in) replacement for the
State monad in the following situation?  If not, is there a "best
practice" for refactoring?

I have a bunch of functions that return state actions:

    type MyState = ...

    foo1 :: T1 -> State MyState a
    foo2 :: T2 -> State MyState a
    ...
    foon :: Tn -> State MyState a

And I'd like to refactor this to use the ST monad, mechanically, if
possible.  All uses of the MyState inside State are single-threaded.

In my application, MyState is a record with 5 or so fields.  One of
those fields uses a list to keep track of some information, and I'd
like to change that to STUArray, because it changes my bottleneck
operations from O(n) to O(1).  This, of course, requires having the ST
monad around, in order to achieve the proper time complexity.

Is there an easy way to do this?  In the future, should I *start out*
with the ST monad if I suspect I'll need to use an imperative data
structure for efficiency reasons?  I started out with State because
I'm modeling a transition system, so it seemed natural.

Any advice is appreciated.

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                              Denis