Re: [Haskell-cafe] Seeking advice on a style question

Hello,

Alternatively, I can wrap all of the state up into a single universal structure that holds everything I will ever need at every step, but doing so seems to me to fly in the face of strong typing; at the early stages of processing, the structure will have "holes" in it that don't contain useful values and shouldn't be accessed.

You might want to look at the following threads discussing how to make variable-state monad like structures. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/17706 http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2006-December/018917.html -Jeff