| Safe Haskell | Safe-Inferred |
|---|---|
| Language | Haskell2010 |
Prolude.MonadIO
Documentation
class Monad m => MonadIO (m :: Type -> Type) where #
Monads in which IO computations may be embedded.
Any monad built by applying a sequence of monad transformers to the
IO monad will be an instance of this class.
Instances should satisfy the following laws, which state that liftIO
is a transformer of monads:
Methods
Lift a computation from the IO monad.
This allows us to run IO computations in any monadic stack, so long as it supports these kinds of operations
(i.e. IO is the base monad for the stack).
Example
import Control.Monad.Trans.State -- from the "transformers" library printState :: Show s => StateT s IO () printState = do state <- get liftIO $ print state
Had we omitted liftIO
• Couldn't match type ‘IO’ with ‘StateT s IO’ Expected type: StateT s IO () Actual type: IO ()
The important part here is the mismatch between StateT s IO () and IO ()
Luckily, we know of a function that takes an IO a(m a): liftIO
> evalStateT printState "hello" "hello" > evalStateT printState 3 3