Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Re: implementing recursive let

2009-11-27 Thread Ryan Ingram
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Ben Franksen wrote: > Thanks, you are confirming what I suspected. I just wasn't sure that I > didn't do something stupid that could easily be fixed. Well, lets unwrap your newtype into the actual functions: Eval (ErrorT String (StateT Env (Writer [String])) a)

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Re: implementing recursive let

2009-11-27 Thread Ben Franksen
Ryan Ingram wrote: > The problem is that ErrorT makes any argument to mdo *much* more > strict, and therefore much more likely to loop. > > This is because each action needs to know whether the previous action > was successful before it can continue. Thanks, you are confirming what I suspected. I