I'm having another go at figuring out Monad Transformers, starting at
the same point I've started and stopped the last couple of times. That's
this tutorial...
http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/05/grok-haskell-monad-transformers.html
Onion layers, lift etc - I get that. But I've never actually got
anything to work - and therefore never built the confidence to move on.
Problem 1 - this is literate Haskell. I've tried feeding it to haddock -
all I get is an error about it lacking a main. I don't know what to
actually do with this after putting it in a *.lhs file.
No big deal, but...
Problem 2 - even cutting the code out, shoving it in a *.hs file, and
:loading it into GHCi, I still get a lot of errors.
For the functions test1 and test2, the fixes were explicit type
signatures. Easy enough to figure out...
test1 :: State Int (Int, Int)
test2 :: State String (String, String)
I guess the basic issue is the same with test3 (and though I haven't
tried the others today, probably test5 and test7 too). The trouble there
is that I don't know what those type signatures should be because I
don't know that much about monad transformers and how they can work. I
can see what's going on in the body of test3, but that is a very small
amount of understanding - the type signatures are important. And I can't
use :type because GHCi is rejecting the code.
In short... HELP!!!
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