[Haskell-cafe] Re: what is inverse of mzero and return?

[Jules Bean]

On 24 Jan 2005, at 09:36, Keean Schupke wrote:

> Ashley Yakeley wrote:
>
>>
>> I disagree. Clearly (putStrLn "Hello" >> mzero) is not the same as 
>> mzero.
>>
>>
> Yes it is, side effects are quite clearly not counted. The value
> of (putStrLn "Hello" >> mzero") is mzero.
>

This makes no sense to me at all.

putStrLn "Hello" has type IO (). mzero (could) have type IO ().

But they certainly do not denote the same element of IO ()!

Monad/MonadPlus laws surely apply to the full monadic type m a, not 
just the value type a?

Jules