Stricter WriterT (Part II)
Gabriel Gonzalez
gabriel439 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 19 16:07:09 CET 2013
> Presumably we'll also need
>
> writerT :: m (a, w) -> WriterT w m a
Yes, we would need that, too:
writerT m = WriterT $ \w -> do
(a, w') <- m
let wt = mappend w w'
wt `seq` return (a, wt)
> Is there any reason to keep Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.Strict, or should this replace it?
If we replace the old one, it will break existing code that used the `WriterT` constructor. Same thing for the strict RWST constructor if we similarly modify that. However, I don't know exactly how many packages use those constructors. I will try to do a text search of Hackage this coming weekend to check and see if it is feasible to ask downstream packages that use `WriterT`/`RWST` constructors to set upper bounds on `transformers`.
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