[Haskell-cafe] Why is "Cont" out of scope?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Daryoush Mehrtash <dmehrtash at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am trying to use the Cont in Control.Monad.Cont but it seems to be
> missing
>
> Prelude> import Control.Monad.Cont
> Prelude Control.Monad.Cont> :t Cont
>
>
It's gone; try "cont" (lowercase).

mtl2 replaced the old standalone monads with monad transformers over the
Identity monad (so Cont is a type alias for ContT Identity); however, it's
not possible to create data constructors for type aliases, so the Cont data
constructor is gone and a "cont" smart constructor has taken its place.

    Prelude Control.Monad.Cont> :t cont
    cont :: ((a -> r) -> r) -> Cont r a

The same is true of State, Reader, and Writer.

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