[Haskell-cafe] Monadic bind fixity: do vs (>>)

[Ryan Ingram]

The desugaring is simpler with the current setup:

do { e }
  => e
do { let p = e; STMTS }
  => let p = e in (do { STMTS })
do { e; STMTS }
  => e >> (do { STMTS })
do { p <- e; STMTS }
  => e >>= \x -> case x of { p -> (do { STMTS }) ; _ -> fail "pattern match
failure" }
       [x is a fresh variable]

My guess is that >> is infixl because
  (1) m >>= f >>= g should make sense
  (2) >> should match fixity and precedence with >>=

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Michael Baikov <manpacket at gmail.com> wrote:

> Most docs ([1], [2]) about do-notation syntactic sugar tends  to
> describe following expressions as equivalent:
>
> "do { a; b; c }"  and "a >> b >> c", but they are not: first one gets
> de-sugared into  "a >> (b >> c)", second one is equivalent to "(a >>
> b) >> c", because (>>) is declared using infixl.
>
> This should not be a problem, monadic law of Associativity states that
> "(m >>= f) >>= g  ≡  m >>= (\x -> f x >>= g)", but this leads to
> generating different Core output and may lead to different performance
> (and it does, do { Just 4 ; Just 4 ... } is about 2% faster than Just
> 4 >> Just 4 >> ... if compiled with -O0, but 13% slower when compiled
> with -O11)
>
> This also leads to lots of fun when your monad  breaks Associativity law :)
>
> Is there any reasons except for those 13% speed gain for this?
>
> [1]: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/do_Notation
> [2]: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/monads.html#monads.dot
>
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