[Haskell-cafe] Re: Using the ContT monads for early exits of IO ?
es at ertes.de
Wed Jun 16 22:07:41 EDT 2010
I use ContT monads for early exit often, because that's one of the
things they encode naturally. But I don't do this with callCC. I
prefer monadLib over mtl/transformers, which has a specific function for
abort :: (AbortM m i) => i -> m a
where AbortM is a class for monads, whose computations are abortable.
All ContT monads are instances. This is also a nice way to break out of
Using an error monad (like Maybe) may be more natural of course.
Günther Schmidt <gue.schmidt at web.de> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm about to write a rather lengthy piece of IO code. Depending on the
> results of some of the IO actions I'd like the computation to stop right
> there and then.
> Now I know in general how to write this but I'm wondering if this is one
> of those occasions where I should make use of the Cont monad to make an
> early exit.
nightmare = unsafePerformIO (getWrongWife >>= sex)
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