[Haskell-cafe] Combining computations

[michael rice]

If you look at this stuff long enough it almost begins to make sense. Maybe. ;-)

I've been messing around with MonadPlus and I understand its usage with the Maybe and List monads. Since one use of Monads is combining computations, how can I combine a Maybe with a List?

let m1 = Nothing
let m2 = [1]
let m3 = m1 `mplus` m2  ==> [1]    --if the Maybe is Nothing, do nothing  

let m1 = Just 1 
let m2 = []
let m3 = m1 `mplus` m2  ==> [1]  --if the Maybe is not Nothing, add it to the list

Or am I misunderstanding combining computations?

Michael




      
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