[Haskell-cafe] streaming translation using monads

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Nov 18, at 21:23, Warren Harris wrote:
> However, each of the clauses is actually an output routine to send  
> the expression that it denotes to a remote server, and a parser for  
> receiving the results. Since a clause is really a pair of  
> operations, it doesn't seem possible to formulate a monad that will  
> compose all the output routines together and compose all the input  
> routines together in one shot. (Note that the variables in the above  
> code (v1, v2) represent inputs to be received from the remote server  
> -- all outputs are packaged into the clause expressions themselves  
> and are effectively literals.)


Have you considered using arrows instead?

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