different flavours of Monad Template Library

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Sat Jan 10 16:18:48 EST 2009


On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Ross Paterson wrote:

> I have uploaded these to hackage.  The packages are:
>
> transformers: monad transformers, operations and liftings.
> 	This is all Haskell 98, and be used on its own, or as a base
> 	for packages defining monad classes.
>
> monads-fd: monad classes using functional dependencies, with instances
> 	for the transformers in the transformers package.  This is
> 	mostly backwards-compatible with mtl.
>
> monads-tf: monad classes using type families, with instances for the
> 	transformers in the transformers package.  This is mostly
> 	backwards-compatible with mtl-tf.

Great!

(will all people associate 'transformers' with 'monad transformers'?)


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