[Haskell-cafe] Custom monad using ST

[Edward Kmett]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Yves Parès <limestrael at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I want to hide the fact that I'm using ST, so if I can hide the
> existential type 's' it is better.
>

In practice if you want to actually _use_ ST you'll find you'll need to let
the world escape into your type. Otherwise you won't be able to create and
pass around any STRefs or arrays and use them later. The universal
quantification inside of MyST's definition will keep you from holding on to
them.

BTW, does someone know why the ST default implementation (the one exposed by
> Control.Monad.ST) is strict, whereas those of State et Writer are lazy?
>

Mostly because of the principle of least surprise. It makes it act more like
IO.

-Edward
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