extensible-effects: An Alternative to Monad Transformers

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This package introduces datatypes for typeclass-constrained effects, as an alternative to monad-transformer based (datatype-constrained) approach of multi-layered effects. For more information, see the original paper at http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible/exteff.pdf. Any help is appreciated!


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Dependencies base (>=4.6 && <5), transformers (>=0.3 && <0.5), transformers-base (>=0.4 && <0.5) [details]
License MIT
Author Oleg Kiselyov, Amr Sabry, Cameron Swords, Ben Foppa
Maintainer suhailshergill@gmail.com
Category Control, Effect
Home page https://github.com/RobotGymnast/extensible-effects
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/RobotGymnast/extensible-effects.git
Uploaded by shergill at 2014-11-19T03:00:46Z
Distributions LTSHaskell:5.0.0.1, NixOS:5.0.0.1, Stackage:5.0.0.1
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Readme for extensible-effects-1.7.1.2

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extensible-effects is based on the work Extensible Effects: An Alternative to Monad Transformers. Please read the paper for details.

Advantages

  • Effects can be added, removed, and interwoven without changes to code not dealing with those effects.

Disadvantages

  • Common functions can't be grouped using typeclasses, e.g. the ask and getState functions can't be grouped with some

    class Get t a where
      ask :: Member (t a) r => Eff r a
    

    ask is inherently ambiguous, since the type signature only provides a constraint on t, and nothing more. To specify fully, a parameter involving the type t would need to be added, which would defeat the point of having the grouping in the first place.

  • Requires a Typeable instance on the return type.

  • Neither Eff nor (:>) has a Typeable instance, and can thus often not be used as a return type (e.g. State type) for other Effs.