[Haskell-cafe] Std lib equivalent for liftM concat . sequence

[Yitzchak Gale]

Alistair Bayley wrote:
>> A couple of days ago I had need for:
>> concatM :: Monad m => [m [a]] -> m [a]
>> concatM = liftM concat . sequence
>> but found no such thing in the std libs

It used to be in an older version of Haskell, but
it was removed in Haskell 98.

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> 2. it's not widely used.

Bulat is justifiably concerned about backwards compatibility
issues when changing the core standard libraries, including
when adding new functions.

Despite Bulat's best efforts, there has been a trend lately
of adding those kinds of things.

If so, nowadays it can be made more general. In this
case, you could at least generalize it to:

concatM :: (Monad m, Traversable t, Foldable t, MonadPlus p) =>
  t (m (p a)) -> m (p a)

or

concatA :: (Applicative f, Traversable t, Foldable t, MonadPlus p) =>
  t (f (p a)) -> f (p a)

I'm sure someone can do better than that. :)

Regards,
Yitz