Ooh, thanks for that! I didn't even know hlint existed. That's pretty cool. As far as use of the State monad... What I was thinking is that I've got the CPU state that gets fed into just about every function, which then returns a new modified CPU. So I'm constantly passing the CPU around. I might want to be able to have hooks that allow me to escape normal updating of the CPU when something specific happens (maybe an error, maybe something else). Would State help with that or are there any better alternatives?

Thanks!

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Francesco Ariis <fa-ml@ariis.it> wrote:

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 07:54:55PM -0400, Erik Tillett wrote:
> I'm looking for sugestions on how to better structure this code. I stuck
> it in a pastbin:
>
> https://pastebin.com/gQFmvq6W/
>
> Would a State monad help?
>
> Thanks!

Hello Erik,
a couple of notes:

- boolToInt is the same as `fromEnum`

λ> :t fromEnum
fromEnum :: Enum a => a -> Int

- there are a lot of redundant brackets, like

if (zReg c) then c{pc = address} else c
^ ^

minor errors like this are easily caught by hlint

As for the state monad: you are correctly using monads to capture
the idea of "things that can fail" (Either), judging by the function
signatures I don't see the need for a State monad (i.e. I don't
see signatures that end in (Something, SomeResult).
(or maybe I am misreading the code, in that case please fire again)

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