Hello, I try to write a monad instance for this type which represent the content of an hdf5 file. This file format is similar to a filesystem, where directories are Group and files Dataset. I end up with this type. data Hdf5M a = H5Root (Hdf5M a) | H5Group ByteString [Hdf5M a] -- A group can contain other groups and/or datasets | forall sh b. (NativeType b, Shape sh) => H5Dataset ByteString (Array F sh b) type Hdf5 = Hdf5M () hdf5 :: Hdf5 -> Hdf5 hdf5 = H5Root group :: ByteString -> [Hdf5] -> Hdf5 group g = H5Group g dataset :: (NativeType b, Shape sh) => ByteString -> (Array F sh b) -> Hdf5 dataset = H5Dataset I tryed to inspire myself from the blaze-html Markup type. And I would like to be able to describe a contain like this hdf5 $ do group "name" $ do dataset "name1" array1 dataset "name2" array2 group "other-name" $ do etc... instead of H5Root ( H5Group "name" [ dataset ]...) the final idea, is to be able to serialize object via a class ToHdf5 where toHdf5 :: a -> Hdf5 So my question is someone can help me design this ? thanks for your help Frederic