Jarkko Oranen <chous...@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> This way, you can write a function that works under many different
> monads, as long as it uses the generic facilities to return monadic
> values. eg. a lifted inc:
>
> (defn m-inc [v]
>   (m-result (inc v))
>
> which can be used in the state monad as an argument to bind, even
> though it doesn't care about the state at all.

Ah, I hadn't realized that such functions -- of which I've now written
several for use in the state monad -- actually say nothing about the
state, and can be used in other monads as well.

That was helpful to consider.

-- 
Steven E. Harris

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