[Haskell-cafe] Different semantics in "identical" do statement?

staafmeister g.c.stavenga at uu.nl
Fri Oct 9 18:47:35 EDT 2009




Daniel Peebles wrote:
> 
> I vaguely remember on IRC someone pointing out that the Parsec monad
> broke one of the laws. I think return _|_ >> x === _|_ which could be
> causing your problem. I may be wrong though.
> 
> 

Confirmed, working in the parsec monad

Prelude Text.Parsec> runP (do {x <- return undefined; return 10}) () "" ""
*** Exception: Prelude.undefined

In the IO Monad
Prelude Text.Parsec> do {x <- return undefined; return 10}
10

Should be fixed.

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