A recursive do for Haskell
Levent Erkök, John Launchbury
Abstract
Levent Erkök, John Launchbury
Abstract
Certain programs making use of monads need to perform recursion over the values of monadic actions. Although the do-notation of Haskell provides a convenient framework for monadic programming, it lacks the generality to support such recursive bindings. In this paper, we describe an enhanced translation schema for the donotation and its integration into Haskell. The new translation allows variables to be bound recursively, provided the underlying monad comes equipped with an appropriate fixed-point operator.
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Certain programs making use of monads need to perform recursion over the values of monadic actions. Although the do-notation of Haskell provides a convenient framework for monadic programming, it lacks the generality to support such recursive bindings. In this paper, we describe an enhanced translation schema for the donotation and its integration into Haskell. The new translation allows variables to be bound recursively, provided the underlying monad comes equipped with an appropriate fixed-point operator.
Key concepts: Haskell, Monad (category theory), Computer science, Programming language, Functional programming, Generality, Recursion (computer science), Schema (genetic algorithms)