Transformers versus monadLib versus...

Hey everyone, What is the current state regarding transformers versus monadLib versus mmtl versus ... etc.? Transformers seems to be the "blessed" replacement for mtl, so when is it worthwhile to use the other libraries instead? It hadn't even occurred to me to look closely at packages other than transformers for this purpose until I read a message earlier today from someone who said that he uses monadLib whenever he needs to use monad transformers, and it has now made me curious about them. Cheers, Greg

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Gregory Crosswhite wrote:
Hey everyone,
What is the current state regarding transformers versus monadLib versus mmtl versus ... etc.? Transformers seems to be the "blessed" replacement for mtl, so when is it worthwhile to use the other libraries instead?
I like 'transformers' most, compared with MTL and monadLib, because it is Haskell 98 (especially only single parameter type classes and thus portable to JHC) and nicely split into modules for every monad class.
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Gregory Crosswhite
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Henning Thielemann