Hi all, does anyone have any tips on how to insert debugging or logging statements through a program? Here are two possibilities: 1. Use some kind of logging monad. But then all your types become more complicated and it seems you have to use lots of ->'s and >>='s instead of ordinary function application. It seems this can make the code much less elegant. Also it seems that every time you want to add logging to a function, you have to change its type, and then change the type of all the functions that call it, etc. Should it really be this complicated? 2. Use unsafePerformIO or similar. But then your code is regularly defeating the type system, which presumably isn't good. Also the ghc manual has special instructions for compiling code that uses unsafePerformIO, intimating that it isn't used very often. It seems this must come up a lot when writing Haskell programs. What do most pople do? -- Ben Escoto