On Jan 1, 2007, at 6:02 , Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Prelude Control.Monad.ST> (runST . return) 42
<interactive>:1:9:
Couldn't match expected type `forall s. ST s a'
against inferred type `m a1'
I think the problem is that technically runST is a data constructor
(possibly not relevant) which takes a function as a parameter
(definitely relevant). In the normal compositional model, (f . g) x
= f (g x), you're conceptually invoking f on the result of g x (g is
independent of f); here, you're lifting the function g x into the ST
s a monad via f (g is dependent on f).
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