Paper on transformers outdated
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Thanks for a great guide!
I just went through the Monad Transformers Step by Step by Martin Grabmuller that the guide links to. It was written in 2006, and it's unfortunately a bit outdated.
Many of the code examples don't compile on modern versions of GHC.
Since this is a beginner resource, maybe add a note about that? Or, should it even be there to begin with? I must say I quite enjoyed the Gentle introduction to monad transformers that you link to.
Thanks for the feedback, this stuff helps me a lot!
I'm going to see what it would take to rehabilitate the paper, failing that, something similar but more recent would be nice.
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On Sep 30, 2014, at 4:49 AM, Honza Pokorny notifications@github.com wrote:
Thanks for a great guide!
I just went through the Monad Transformers Step by Step by Martin Grabmuller that the guide links to. It was written in 2006, and it's unfortunately a bit outdated.
Many of the code examples don't compile on modern versions of GHC.
Since this is a beginner resource, maybe add a note about that? Or, should it even be there to begin with? I must say I quite enjoyed the Gentle introduction to monad transformers that you link to.
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@honza I reshuffled the transformers section to prioritize up to date, quality tutorials for learning transformers. I also added a warning about the paper's code being out of date.
https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell#monads-and-monad-transformers
Closing issue as I believe this resolves the issue. Thanks for reporting! 👍
Great, thanks!