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[http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/jeremy.gibbons/publications/tactics.pdf Martin & Gibbons] choose '''Monoid''', '''Left Zero''', and '''Left Distribution'''. This makes <tt>[]</tt> a MonadPlus, but not <tt>Maybe</tt> or <tt>IO</tt>. |
[http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/jeremy.gibbons/publications/tactics.pdf Martin & Gibbons] choose '''Monoid''', '''Left Zero''', and '''Left Distribution'''. This makes <tt>[]</tt> a MonadPlus, but not <tt>Maybe</tt> or <tt>IO</tt>. |
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Revision as of 23:17, 15 January 2006
import Control.Monad |
The MonadPlus class is defined like this:
class (Monad m) => MonadPlus m where mzero :: m a mplus :: m a -> m a -> m a
The precise set of rules that MonadPlus should obey is not agreed upon.
- Monoid — mplus and mzero form a monoid:
mplus mzero a = a mplus a mzero = a mplus (mplus a b) c = mplus a (mplus b c)
- Left Zero — mzero is a left zero for >>=:
mzero >>= k = mzero
- Left Distribution:
mplus a b >>= k = mplus (a >>= k) (b >>= k)
- Left Catch — this is rarely advocated, but Maybe and IO satisfy this as an alternative to Left Distribution.
mplus (return a) b = return a
Which rules?
Martin & Gibbons choose Monoid, Left Zero, and Left Distribution. This makes [] a MonadPlus, but not Maybe or IO.