Wow... my bad. Stream is in no way a monad transformer. I really should read before speaking... Stream s m t is such as "An instance of Stream has stream type s, underlying monad m and token type t determined by the stream" ( http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/parsec/3.1.1/doc/html/Text-Parse... ) ParsecT is the monad transformer, which when stacked with Identity gives a simple monad, aliased by the type Parsec : type Parsec s u = ParsecT<http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/parsec/3.1.1/doc/html/Text-Parsec-Prim.html#t:ParsecT>s u Identity<http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/transformers/0.2.2.0/doc/html/Data-Functor-Identity.html#t:Identity> 2011/10/8 Yves Parès <limestrael@gmail.com>
If I have this right, Stream is a monad transformer. Stream s m t means that it parses 's', is stacked with monad 'm' and has a result of type 't'
So Identity is a monad, the simplest monad, defined as such:
newtype Indentity t = Identity { runIdentity :: t }
It's the identity monad, that does nothing special but wrapping its result.
2011/10/8 Captain Freako <capn.freako@gmail.com>
Hi all,
In this definition from the Parsec library:
parse :: (Stream s Identity t) => Parsec s () a -> SourceName -> s -> Either ParseError aparse p = runP p ()
what's the significance of `Identity t'? (`t' isn't used anywhere.)
Thanks, -db
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