Copyright | (c) Andy Gill 2001, (c) Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, 2002 |
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License | BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE) |
Maintainer | libraries@haskell.org |
Stability | experimental |
Portability | portable |
Safe Haskell | Trustworthy |
Language | Haskell2010 |
Monadic fixpoints.
For a detailed discussion, see Levent Erkok's thesis, Value Recursion in Monadic Computations, Oregon Graduate Institute, 2002.
Documentation
class Monad m => MonadFix m where Source
Monads having fixed points with a 'knot-tying' semantics.
Instances of MonadFix
should satisfy the following laws:
- purity
mfix
(return
. h) =return
(fix
h)- left shrinking (or tightening)
mfix
(\x -> a >>= \y -> f x y) = a >>= \y ->mfix
(\x -> f x y)- sliding
, for strictmfix
(liftM
h . f) =liftM
h (mfix
(f . h))h
.- nesting
mfix
(\x ->mfix
(\y -> f x y)) =mfix
(\x -> f x x)
This class is used in the translation of the recursive do
notation
supported by GHC and Hugs.