[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] [ANN] Safe Lazy IO in Haskell

Ryan Ingram ryani.spam at gmail.com
Tue May 19 01:06:39 EDT 2009


On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Taral <taralx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Will this do?
>
> (>>=) :: (NFData sa, NFData b) => LI sa -> (sa -> LI b) -> LI b

No, the problem is that >>= on monads has no constraints, it must have the type
> LI a -> (a -> LI b) -> LI b

This is a common problem with trying to use do-notation; there are
some cases where you can't make the object an instance of Monad.  The
same problem holds for Data.Set; you'd can write

setBind :: Ord b => Set a -> (a -> Set b) -> Set b
setBind m f = unions (map f $ toList m)

but there is no way to use setBind for a definition of >>=

  -- ryan


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