Generalize type signature of usingStateT
#2923
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This PR changes two characters to generalize the type of
usingStateT
, making it possible to use it with functions that arbitrarily transform the items in a stream.Here's an example motivating the need for this change. I rely on the below function to transform streams in a manner in which each item in a stream can be mapped to a new value that depends on an arbitrary state (which is typically built up from previous items in the stream):
It should be possible to refactor this function as
stateMap f s = S.catMaybes . S.usingStateT (return s) (S.mapM f)
, but the present type ofusingStateT
overly constrains the type of the argumentf
.(I'll also take this opportunity to ask: Is there is an established approach to doing the sort of thing I wrote stateMap for? I couldn't find any such pre-packaged functionality in the library.)