[Haskell-cafe] Missing mil classes for RWST.CPS (was: Coercing newtype-wrapped monad transformers?)

[Viktor Dukhovni]

> On May 10, 2020, at 3:20 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane at dukhovni.org> wrote:
> 
> I ended going with the below, with my module exporting only a
> higher-level interface that uses RWST internally, but exports
> a more abstract monad, hiding the implementation details.
> 
>    {-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-}
>    import qualified Control.Monad.Trans.RWS.CPS as RWS
>    import Data.Coerce (coerce)
> 
>    newtype RWST r w s m a = RWST (RWS.RWST r w s m a)
>    deriving instance MonadTrans (RWST r w s)
>    deriving instance (Monad m) => Functor (RWST r w s m)
>    deriving instance (Monad m) => Applicative (RWST r w s m)
>    deriving instance (Monad m) => Monad (RWST r w s m)
> 
>    type EvalM f r w s m a = (Monoid w, Monad m) => f r w s m a -> r -> s -> m (a, w)
>    evalRWST :: forall r w s m a.       EvalM     RWST r w s m a
>    evalRWST  = coerce (RWS.evalRWST :: EvalM RWS.RWST r w s m a)
> 
> [...]

I should probably mention that the reason I'm having to jump through these
hoops with boilerplate code is that neither "mtl", nor "transformers" provide
"MonadReader", "MonadWriter", "MonadState" or just "MonadRWS" instances for
RWS.CPS, which might otherwise have made it possible to just replace all the
coercions with:

 -- here MyRWST == a newtype-wrapped actual RWS.CPS.RWST
 deriving instance Monad m => MonadRWS r w s (MyRWST r w s m) 

along the lines of: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/writer-cps-mtl-0.1.1.6

Are there reasons why MTL cannot or should not do this?  Or is this just something
that the maintainer have not had a chance to consider or implement?

[ The "mtl" MonadWriter type class has a narrower signature for "pass" where the
  inner monoid   is the same as the outer monoid, but that's sufficient for my needs. ]

-- 
	Viktor.