The operational package is just a free monad with some canned conveniences. If what it provides is sufficient for your use case, there's no reason to switch; but if they don't fit your use case, you can use one of the other embellished free monads (e.g. MonadPrompt) or start from a bare free monad and write what you need.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Michael Litchard <litchard.michael@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm studying the code for a blackjack game: See marked answer.
http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/46809/blackjack-in-haskell

It uses the operational package, and mentions one could write equivalent code using a free monad. But my question is, for this use case is there any benefit for using a free monad?

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