RE: polymorphic type in state of state monad

2003-03-11 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| | type State = Term a = [a] | | data M a = M (State - IO(State,a)) | | | | GHC yields a error message Illegal polymorphic type. | | How to resolve this? I can tell you what it happening. If you have -fglasgow-exts on, the type for State is short for type State = forall a. Term

Re: polymorphic type in state of state monad

2003-03-10 Thread Andrew J Bromage
G'day all. On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:34:06AM +1300, Tom Pledger wrote: If, on the other hand, you want to vary the state type *during* a single monadic computation, it gets messy. You could try one of the following. Very often, you just want to vary the state type for some portion of the