mplus requires both arguments to be in the same monad (the same type, even). Fortunately, the empty list behaves like Nothing, and a singleton list behaves like Just. So convert the Maybe before composing, using: maybeToList Nothing = [] maybeToList (Just x) = [x] (The maybeToList function can be found in Data.Maybe) Keep in mind that this will give you: Just 1 `mplus` [2,3,4] ==> [1,2,3,4] Which may not be what you want... Luke On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:26 PM, michael rice <nowgate@yahoo.com> wrote:
I posted something similar about an hour ago but it seems to have gotten lost. Very strange.
I've read that Monads can combine computations. Can a Maybe monad be combined with a List monad such that
Nothing `mplus` [] ==> [] Just 1 `mplus` [] ==> [1]
If not, can someone supply a simple example of combining computations?
Michael
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