Dougal Stanton wrote:
> Is there some sort of equivalent of the if/then/else construct for use
> in the IO monad? For instance the following can get quite tedious:
>
>> do bool <- doesFileExist filename
>> if bool
>> then sth
>> else sth'
>
> Is there a more compact way of writing that? Something akin to:
>
>> condM (doesFileExist filename) (sth) (sth')
>
> Or maybe there's a more sensible way of doing the above that I've
> missed. I seem to use endless alternate conditions sometimes and there's
> bound to be a better way.
Roll your own control structures! Haskell has higher order functions for a
reason. This should do the trick (untested):
condM condAction thenBranch elseBranch = do
bool <- condAction
if bool
then thenBranch
else elseBranch
(Hack it into ghci or hugs to find out the type, it's a bit more general
than what you need.)
Cheers
Ben
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