| Copyright | (c) Andy Gill 2001, (c) Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, 2002 |
|---|---|
| License | BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE) |
| Maintainer | [email protected] |
| Stability | experimental |
| Portability | portable |
| Safe Haskell | Trustworthy |
| Language | Haskell2010 |
Monadic fixpoints.
For a detailed discussion, see Levent Erkok's thesis, Value Recursion in Monadic Computations, Oregon Graduate Institute, 2002.
class Monad m => MonadFix m where Source
Monads having fixed points with a 'knot-tying' semantics. Instances of MonadFix should satisfy the following laws:
mfix (return . h) = return (fix h)mfix (\x -> a >>= \y -> f x y) = a >>= \y -> mfix (\x -> f x y)mfix (liftM h . f) = liftM h (mfix (f . h)), for strict h.mfix (\x -> mfix (\y -> f x y)) = mfix (\x -> f x x)This class is used in the translation of the recursive do notation supported by GHC and Hugs.
mfix :: (a -> m a) -> m a Source
The fixed point of a monadic computation. mfix f executes the action f only once, with the eventual output fed back as the input. Hence f should not be strict, for then mfix f would diverge.
fix f is the least fixed point of the function f, i.e. the least defined x such that f x = x.
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