Hope you don't mind my butting in. If you're looking for a "compelling use case" to make programming with monads more natural in Haskell, I'd say STM makes for a good one. There is no question there as to whether a monad is the right way to do STM; it is required.
In working on some code recently that uses STM rather heavily, what I've found is that there are a couple things that make the experience somewhat painful despite the general promise of the technique. The most important is fixed by Simon's proposal for monad splices. I'd literally jump for joy if something like this were included in a future version of Haskell! Frankly, I don't think anyone will be convinced to use a more functional style by making programming in the STM monad more painful to do in Haskell. Instead, they will be convinced to be more hesitant about using Haskell for concurrent programming. -- Chris Smith _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
