Move MonadIO to base

[Antoine Latter]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Twan van Laarhoven <twanvl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
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> Some people have remarked that the MonadIO class would be better of in the
> base package instead of mtl/transformers. It can be used largely
> independently from the monad transformers, and it is useful without them.
>
> This has been previously discussed [1,2], but as far as I know nothing ever
> came of it.
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> If MonadIO were in base, then the base library itself could also use it. For
> example the functions in System.IO could be lifted to work on any MonadIO
> monad. Whether that is a good idea is completely orthogonal to this
> discussion, however.
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> How hard would it be to make this change? For backwards compatibility mtl
> and transformers would need a check to see which version of base is used, or
> new versions of mtl/transformers should just not include MonadIO.
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+1 from me.

Sorry for dropping the last thread, but that was the conclusion it
seemed to come to.
I'm not as sure about moving MonadTrans to Base, but that's because I
never use it.

Antoine