[Haskell-cafe] CPS Error Monad

[Brandon Moore]

> From: Max Cantor <mxcantor at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 7:58:49 AM
> 
> FYI,
> 
> I  implemented an error monad using this church-encoded either  instead of the 
>conventional either.  my thought was that since you skip the  conditional at 
>each bind call you'd get better performance.  I was quite  mistaken.

That's surprising, I think LogicT gains significant performance from that sort 
of CPS conversion.

Was your code like this?

newtype ErrorC e a = ErrorC (runErrorC :: forall r . (e -> r) -> (a -> r) -> r)

instance Monad (ErrorC e) where
  return x = ErrorC (\fail succeed -> succeed x)
  ErrorC part1 >>= f =
     ErrorC (\fail succeed -> part1 fail (\a -> runErrorC (f a) fail succeed))

instance MonadError e (ErrorC e) where
  throwError e = ErrorC (\fail succeed -> fail e)
  catchError m handler = ErrorC (\fail succeed ->
     runErrorC m (\err -> runErrorC (handler err) fail succeed) succeed)
  
Brandon Moore