Re: Proposal: Add Chris Done's "om" combinator to Control.Monad

26 Jul 2013

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Stephen Tetley  writes:
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This just looks like a synthetic combinator to me (cue the arbitrary name).
Naturally it can make some code shorter (that's the point of combinators) but I
have reservations that the code is significantly clearer, more appealing.
It's just that I tend to write the following a LOT:

    x <- someMonadicFunction
    when x $ do
        ...

I generally avoid using whenM because it seems silly to bring in a package
dependency for something so trivial.  With "om", it's the same thing:

    om when someMonadicFunction $ do
        ...

I really didn't think it was that confusing or hard to read, but if people
dislike it on principle, I have no other arguments besides utility.  I find
myself reaching for it a lot, so thought others might too.

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