Simple StateT use
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A small example showing how to combine a State monad (in this case a unique supply), with the IO monad, via a monad transformer.
No need to resort to nasty mutable variables or globals!
import Control.Monad.State
main = runStateT code [1..] >> return ()
--
-- layer a infinite list of uniques over the IO monad
--
code = do
x <- pop
io $ print x
y <- pop
io $ print y
return ()
--
-- pop the next unique off the stack
--
pop = do
(x:xs) <- get
put xs
return x
io = liftIO