@hackage freer-indexed0.1.0.0

This package defines "freer indexed monad". It combines the ideas of freer monad and indexed (aka parameterized) monad:

• Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects

• Parameterized monads

• Parameterized Extensible Effects and Session Types

It allows defining indexed monadic computations as GADTs without making them into ad-hoc indexed monads, and instead use this data type to convert them into Functor, XApplicative and XMonad instances - see Control.XApplicative and Control.XMonad in this package.

This package does not (yet) allow composing these computations.

Semantically, these computations could represent type-level state changes of some associated resources, with the first index parameter meaning initial resource state prior to the computation, and the second index - the final resource state, making each computation an edge in the graph of resource state transitions.

For XApplicative/XMonad classes all class and additional functions have similar names to standard Applicative/Monad functions, following two naming conventions:

• function names are prefixed with "x" (for "indeXed") - e.g. xpure, xreturn, xliftM2 etc.

• operators are postfixed with ":" - e.g. <*>:, >>=:, >=>: etc.