I feel like instead, MonadTrans should have a function
(>>==) :: Monad m => t m a -> (a -> t m b) -> t m b
That way, it can prove it's a Monad while still staying Haskell 98.
On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 10:51 Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 07:27:28AM +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
So far, 'transformers' is mostly Haskell 98. This is why I prefer it to 'mtl'. Wouldn't it be enough to add this extension to 'mtl'? I see that 'mtl' re-uses the MonadTrans class from 'transformers' but maybe it should define its own class with the quantified constraints then.
I don't think that having two incompatible MonadTrans classes would constitute progress. Older versions of the transformers library (which is by now quite stable) will continue to be available, for anyone who wants to use a Haskell '98 (ish?) version.
[ FWIW, I don't know what you mean by "is mostly Haskell '98", I'd expect that to be a strict binary choice: is or isn't. ]
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