Generalize MonadIO to MonadBase

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Apr 20, 2010, at 17:45 , Evan Laforge wrote:
> I haven't really been following this discussion, but I use
> Identity-backed monads all the time.  Usually some combination of
> StateT, WriterT, ErrorT and ReaderT.
>
> Are there any "base" monads other than IO and Identity?


ST and STM, as I understand it.  All the others can be implemented as  
a transformer on top of Identity.

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