[Haskell-cafe] Fun with the ST monad

[Stephen Tetley]

On 25 February 2011 20:38,  <mokus at deepbondi.net> wrote:

> The short version is that I think there is a more enlightening view of
> iteratees than as a kind of a fold.  For me, it makes a lot more sense to
> think of them as operations in a particular abstract monad which has one
> associated operation, a blocking read.  Under that view, it is also very
> easy to extend them in arbitrary directions, such as adding support for
> incremental output.

There was a thread on Haskell-cafe a while ago noting some similarity
between the iteratees and the resumption monad.

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-August/082533.html

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