[Haskell-cafe] Transformers versus monadLib versus...

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Sat Jul 10 10:34:10 EDT 2010


On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Gregory Crosswhite wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> What is the current state regarding transformers versus monadLib versus
> mmtl versus ... etc.?  Transformers seems to be the "blessed"
> replacement for mtl, so when is it worthwhile to use the other libraries
> instead?

I like 'transformers' most, compared with MTL and monadLib, because it is 
Haskell 98 (especially only single parameter type classes and thus 
portable to JHC) and nicely split into modules for every monad class.


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