Re: [Haskell-cafe] list monad and controlling the backtracking

2006-11-24 Thread Henk-Jan van Tuyl
The idea of backtracking is, that you try all options because you can't tell/calulate in advance which parameters lead to a solution; if you have some idea about where and how to limit your search, you may save a lot of time. In your example, you can limit your search by replacing the

[Haskell-cafe] list monad and controlling the backtracking

2006-11-23 Thread isto
Hi all, Weekly news had a link to article Local and global side effects with monad transformers and the following is from there (minor modification done): import Control.Monad.List import Control.Monad.State import Control.Monad.Writer test5 :: StateT Integer (ListT (Writer [Char])) Integer