[Hugs-users] Network.CGI missing in Hugs

[Lihn, Steve]

I did not realize reporting a missing CGI module could cause such a lengthy discussion.
Since I am new to Haskell, can someone explain why a CGI module, which seems to be a basic 
for any modern programming language, is such a headache in Haskell?

I roughly know it is related to Monad, a state machine. But why is it so difficult to get
something from the environment and process the information accordingly?
Programs read from environments, databases, files all the time. 
Do they all have similar issues in Haskell?

  Steve Lihn
  

-----Original Message-----
From: hugs-users-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:hugs-users-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Bjorn Bringert
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 1:10 PM
To: Ian Lynagh
Cc: Ross Paterson; hugs-users at haskell.org
Subject: Re: [Hugs-users] Network.CGI missing in Hugs

On Jan 7, 2007, at 19:03 , Ian Lynagh wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:14:31PM +0100, Bjorn Bringert wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2007, at 18:04 , Ross Paterson wrote:
>>>
>>> 	instance (MonadTrans t, MonadCGI m, Monad (t m)) => MonadCGI (t m)
>>
>> I added that instance reluctantly, but it is quite useful when you
>> write your own monad transformers and want to wrap CGIT. Removing it
>> would break some existing code (Hope is the only one I know of),
>
> Some of my code needs it too (I think I might have requested it be  
> added
> in the first place?). I find it very useful to be able to write  
> code in
> the style shown in
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-January/021085.html
>
> Hugs compatibility is also important, though, and undecidable  
> instances
> are marked "probably no" for Haskell'.
>
> It feels like a bit of a sledgehammer, but maybe the instance  
> should be
> put in its own package cgi-undecidable or something?

Yes, you were the one who requested it in the first place. It was  
initially in a separate module. As far as I recall, I only moved it  
to Network.CGI.Monad to avoid it being an orphan instance. This isn't  
really important I guess. I would be ok with moving it somewhere  
else. A separate package would probably be the cleanest, since it  
would allow applications to declare that they need it.

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