[Haskell-cafe] Re: The State Monad

On 2004-10-07, John Goerzen wrote:

This thing is giving me fits. I need a global variable of sorts for an implementation of Syslog. (Yes, I really do.)

OK, my problem is that I have been looking at the world wrong. I found what I really needed in Data.IORef. Which leaves me with an odd curiosity -- I still can't figure out how state monads are anything but syntactic sugar (and lead more to spaghetti code at that <g>) -- John