[Haskell-cafe] Still stacking monad transformers

[Andrew Coppin]

Duncan Coutts wrote:
> Have you tried pure lazy functional programming without stacked monads?
>   

I want to process multiple results. The list monad seems a natural way 
to do this. (All of which goes horribly wrong when you try to add error 
processing...)

> I've never been convinced that stacked monads is a good way to write
> ordinary code. Monad transformers are great for building your own custom
> monads but they should be wrapped in a newtype and made abstract. One
> shouldn't have to see the multiple layers. If ordinary code is full of
> 'lift' then it would seem to me that one is doing something wrong.
>   

Given that what I'm attempting to do is extremely simple, yet I am 
having extreme difficulty doing it, yeah, I think we can safely conclude 
I'm doing something wrong.