Arie Peterson
Would anyone have a problem with a deprecation of MonadCatchIO-transformers, and a failure to update it to work with a base without 'block' and 'unblock'?
Yes. This is a simplified variant of a monad I use: newtype Continue f m a = Continue (m (Maybe a, f (Continue f a))) It's related to Cofree and has a valid and very straightforward MonadCatchIO instance. However, it's probably impossible to write a valid MonadTransControl/MonadBaseControl instance for it. So I kindly ask you not to deprecate MonadCatchIO. The reason I'm hesitant about moving to monad-control is that it's hard to understand and also very difficult to define for CPS monads. It is commonly believed to be impossible. Also I've seen at least one article about the incorrectness of monad-control. That's one further reason I like to avoid it. Greets, Ertugrul -- Not to be or to be and (not to be or to be and (not to be or to be and (not to be or to be and ... that is the list monad.