@hackage do-notation-dsl0.1.0.3

An alternative to monads

Dsl

The Prelude.>>= combinator limits the return type as a m b, which cause Monads not composable. In order to ease this restrictions, this proposal introduces another type class Dsl for do notation.

Motivation

Monads do not compose. Normally a do block cannot contains operators defined in different monad instances.

The state of art solution is using only one monad Eff, which forwards all monadic bind operations to custom effect handlers, instead of defining new monads.

However, the Eff approach is heavy weight than ordinary monad. It's not very convenient to create an additional indirect layer for simple use cases.

The Eff approach of bypassing >>= combinator is quite embarrassing. Since >>= settles on our logo, In this proposal we present a new approach to enable multiple operations at once by improving >>=. This proposal aims to port the approach used in Dsl.scala to Haskell. This approach improves the extensibility of >>=.