list monad transformer

Iavor Diatchki diatchki@cse.ogi.edu
Fri, 16 May 2003 08:45:14 -0700


hello,

i would gladly volunteer for the task.  in fact i have my own monad 
transformer library which is very simillar to the ghc one in some 
respects,  and i have been wanting to merge the two together...

how does one go about "owning" a library :-) ?

bye
iavor


Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> We could do with someone to take ownership of the Control.Monad
> libraries.  Andy Gill wrote them but I don't think he's actively
> maintaining them, which leaves discussions like this in mid air.
> 
> Simon
> 
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: haskell-admin@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-admin@haskell.org] On
> Behalf Of Andrew J Bromage
> | Sent: 16 May 2003 05:20
> | To: Iavor Diatchki
> | Cc: Haskell Mailing List; libraries@haskell.org
> | Subject: Re: list monad transformer
> | 
> | G'day all.
> | 
> | On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:12:32AM -0700, Iavor Diatchki wrote:
> | 
> | > given that, we should either remove the
> | > #ListT# transformer from the monad library, or (perhaps better) put
> a
> | > big warning that it should only be used with commutative monads.
> | 
> | My personal choice would be to dump it and replace it with Ralf
> | Hinze's backtracking monad transformer, which _does_ preserve
> | commutativity.  If someone with checkin rights is listening in,
> | I'd be very happy to contribute my implementation, which is about
> | as stable as it's ever going to be.
> | 
> | Cheers,
> | Andrew Bromage
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