[Haskell-cafe] free monad versus operational for blackjack game

[Brandon Allbery]

The operational package is just a free monad with some canned conveniences.
If what it provides is sufficient for your use case, there's no reason to
switch; but if they don't fit your use case, you can use one of the other
embellished free monads (e.g. MonadPrompt) or start from a bare free monad
and write what you need.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Michael Litchard <
litchard.michael at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm studying the code for a blackjack game: See marked answer.
> http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/46809/blackjack-in-haskell
>
> It uses the operational package, and mentions one could write equivalent
> code using a free monad. But my question is, for this use case is there any
> benefit for using a free monad?
>
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