[Haskell-cafe] Is it possible to make lazy combinators for IO? (Was: (no subject))

[David Feuer]

Spectacular! That looks like just what I wanted! Unless there are some
hidden gotchas, it might be worth making a package of that. The bit
that's strangest to me is how stToIO (seems to) make sure that all the
actions actually get performed.

David

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Bertram Felgenhauer
<bertram.felgenhauer at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I see what I missed here: The IO part of `y` should also force the IO part
> of `x` to be performed, and that is not captured by `unsafeInterleaveIO`,
> since it preserves the order of the IO actions. In fact such a monad
> already exists in the form of the lazy ST monad. So...
>
>     import Control.Monad.ST.Lazy as LST
>     import Control.Monad.ST.Lazy.Unsafe as LSTU
>     import Control.Monad.IO.Class
>     import Control.Monad.Fix
>
>     newtype MyIO a = MyIO (LST.ST RealWorld a)
>         deriving (Functor, Applicative, Monad, MonadFix)
>
>     instance MonadIO MyIO where
>         liftIO = MyIO . LSTU.unsafeIOToST
>
>     runMyIO :: MyIO a -> IO a
>     runMyIO (MyIO f) = stToIO f
>
>     main = runMyIO $ do
>         l <- (2:) `fmap` liftIO readLn
>         m <- replicateM (head l) (liftIO readLn)
>         liftIO (print (l :: [Int],m :: [Int]))
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bertram