Dan Burton wrote: > From what you've said, it sounds like you can already write: > > serverSide :: IO a -> Form a > > This seems elegant enough to me for your needs. Just encourage it as an > idiom specific to Forms. > > myBlogForm = Blog <$> titleForm <*> serverSide getCurrentTime <*> > contentsForm > > Could you abstract `serverSide` out into a typeclass, such as ApplicativeIO? > Sure. but why bother? The point is, you've got the specialization you need > already.
In my opinion, this is the nicest answer to the original question about yesod forms. But the more general question that it led to is an interesting and important one. -Yitz _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
