[Haskell-cafe] Monad transformer to consume a list

[Tom Schrijvers]

>> Hello,
>> 
>> is there a monad transformer to consume an input list? I've got external
>> events "streaming into the monad" that are consumed on demand and I'm
>> not sure if there's something better than a StateT.
>
> I wondered that, too. I wondered whether there is something inverse to 
> Writer, and Reader is appearently not the answer. Now I think, that State is 
> indeed the way to go to consume a list. Even better is StateT List Maybe:
>
> next :: StateT [a] Maybe a
> next = StateT Data.List.HT.viewL   -- see utility-ht package

Or make the transformer a MonadPlus transformer and call mzero for the 
empty list?

Tom

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