Dmitri, Excellent questions. There's one step you're missing. Most of your questions revolve around 'foo <- bar' constructs within a monad. I would suggest that you review the de-sugaring rules at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Syntactic_sugar#Do_and_proc_notation and see if that helps you out some. The best process would be for you to 1.) De-sugar this function completely and 2.) look at bind (denoted as >>=), and substitute it in.
Hope this helps! 2008/5/19 Dmitri O.Kondratiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am trying to understand State monad example15 at: > http://www.haskell.org/all_about_monads/html/statemonad.html > > Example 15 uses getAny that I don't understand at all how it works: > > getAny :: (Random a) => State StdGen a > getAny = do g <- get > (x,g') <- return $ random g > put g' > return x > > > Questions: > 1) random has type: > random :: (Random a, RandomGen g) => g -> (a, g) > > and for State monad: > > return a = State (\s -> (a, s)) > > then: > return (random g) = State (\s -> ((a,g), s)) > > Is it correct? > > 2) What x and g' will match to in: > do ... > (x,g') <- return $ random g > > which, as I understand equals to: > do ... > (x,g') <- State (\s -> ((a,g), s)) > > What x and g' will match to in the last expression? > > 3) In general, in do expression (pseudo): > do { x <- State (\s -> (a, s)); ...} > > What x will refer to? Will x stand for a whole lambda function: \s -> (a, s) > ? > > 4) How 'g <- get' works in this function (getAny) ? > 5) Why we need 'put g'? > > Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe