Hello Cafe! I have written some iteratee functions that I found to be very very useful and I hope they will soon make it to the iteratee library. However, I'd like to get some feedback first, particularly about the error handling. I'm sending this here rather than to iteratee mailing list at projects.haskell.org because the latter is (and has been for a while!) down... Anyway, enumSequence and enumSequence_ are inspired by Prelude's sequence and sequence_. They are useful when one has to deal with several iteratees consuming the same data. For instance, one could use enumSequence as follows:

run $ joinIM $ enumPureNChunk [1..100] 3 $ enumSequence [I.head, I.head >>= \x -> I.head >>= \y -> return (x+y), I.last]

which produces: [1,3,100] Each iteratee in the list is given the same input stream. Also, enumSequence consumes as much of the stream as the iteratee in the list that consumes the most. In the above example there is no stream left after enumSequence finishes because I.last consumes everything. As an another example, enumSequence below consumes only the first two elements of the stream and the remainder is passed to stream2list:

run $ joinIM $ enumPureNChunk [1..10] 3 $ (enumSequence [I.head, I.head >> I.head] >> stream2list)

[3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] The code for enumSequence is enclosed below (enumSequence_ is almost identical!) To make it complete though I should add some sort of error handling. I'm not quite sure however what would be the best thing to do. For instance, what should happen if the stream is finished, but one of the iteratees is not done yet? Should the whole enumSequence fail? Similarly, should the whole enumSequence fail if one of the iteratees throws an error? I guess throwing some sort of recoverable error could work. But I still need to figure out how to do that! -- Maciej ########## code ########## enumSequence :: forall m s a el . (Monad m, LL.ListLike s el, Nullable s) => [Iteratee s m a] -> Iteratee s m [a] enumSequence is = liftI step where step :: Stream s -> Iteratee s m [a] step s@(Chunk xs) | LL.null xs = liftI step | otherwise = do let is' = map (joinIM . enumPure1Chunk xs) is allDone <- lift (checkIfDone is') if allDone then uncurry idone =<< lift (collectResults is') else enumSequence (updateChunk s is') -- TODO: should return an error if not all iteratees are done step (EOF _) = uncurry idone =<< lift (collectResults . map (joinIM . enumEof) $ is) -- returns true if *all* iteratees are done; otherwise returns false checkIfDone :: [Iteratee s m a] -> m Bool checkIfDone = liftM and . mapM (\i -> runIter i onDone onCont) where onDone _ _ = return True onCont _ _ = return False -- returns a list of result values and the unconsumed part of the stream collectResults :: [Iteratee s m a] -> m ([a], Stream s) collectResults = liftM (id *** foldl1 shortest) . mapAndUnzipM (\i -> runIter i onDone onCont) where onDone a s = return (a,s) onCont _ _ = error "enumSequence: collectResults failed; all iteratees should be done" shortest :: Stream s -> Stream s -> Stream s shortest (Chunk xs) (Chunk ys) | LL.length xs > LL.length ys = Chunk ys | otherwise = Chunk xs shortest s@(EOF _) _ = s shortest _ s@(EOF _) = s -- iteratee in *done* state holds the unconsumed part of the chunk it -- was given; this chunk needs to be discarded when we move further in -- the stream updateChunk :: Stream s -> [Iteratee s m a] -> [Iteratee s m a] updateChunk s = map (\i -> joinIM $ runIter i (\a _ -> return $ idone a s) icontM)