On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Guru Devanla <gurudev.devanla@gmail.com> wrote:

1.  I see that almost in every function I deal with state, I have e <- get , expression in the begining. I always ending up having to use the state to query for different values. I guess this is OK.

El 8 jul 2016, a las 22:07, William Yager <will.yager@gmail.com> escribió:

For #1, look into using the Lens library's support for the State monad. You can often avoid doing a get, and instead write things like `fees += 5`, which will add 5 to the field in the state called "fees".


Lens is a pretty heavy extra thing for a beginner to have to learn -- you'll do fine with the 'modify' function:

modify :: (s -> s) -> State s ()

So instead of writing:

do
   s <- get
   put (s + 5)

You say:

modify (+5)


Tom