[Haskell-cafe] Monad transformer responsibilities

[Martijn van Steenbergen]

Hello,

Suppose I have two projects: 1) one that defines a monad transformer and 
an accompanying type class that captures my monad-specific operations 
and 2) one that uses the other project, combining the monad transformer 
with, say, Parsec.

Now while writing my Parsec parser I want to use my monad transformer 
operations without using lift: I need an instance MyMonadT Parsec. Where 
should this instance go? I can think of three answers, all unsatisfactory:

1) For obvious reasons it shouldn't go in the Parsec package.

2) For pretty much the same reasons it shouldn't go in my monad 
transformer package, either. Also, it is undesirable to add a dependency 
on Parsec just for this instance, and the package should not have to 
know about the projects that are going to use it.

3) If I put it in the second project it is an orphan instance, which is 
undesirable for well-known reasons.

What is the best solution?

Thank you,

Martijn.