Copyright	(c) The University of Glasgow 2001
License	BSD-style (see the file LICENSE)
Maintainer	ross@soi.city.ac.uk
Stability	experimental
Portability	portable
Safe Haskell	Safe-Inferred
Language	Haskell98

Control.Monad.Trans.Cont

Contents

The Cont monad
The ContT monad transformer
Lifting other operations

Description

Continuation monads.

Synopsis

The Cont monad

type Cont r = ContT r Identity Source

Continuation monad. Cont r a is a CPS computation that produces an intermediate result of type a within a CPS computation whose final result type is r.

The return function simply creates a continuation which passes the value on.

The >>= operator adds the bound function into the continuation chain.

cont :: ((a -> r) -> r) -> Cont r aSource

Construct a continuation-passing computation from a function. (The inverse of runCont.)

runCont Source

Arguments

:: Cont r a	continuation computation (`Cont`).
-> (a -> r)	the final continuation, which produces the final result (often `id`).
-> r

Runs a CPS computation, returns its result after applying the final continuation to it. (The inverse of cont.)

mapCont :: (r -> r) -> Cont r a -> Cont r aSource

Apply a function to transform the result of a continuation-passing computation.

```
runCont (mapCont f m) = f . runCont m
```

withCont :: ((b -> r) -> a -> r) -> Cont r a -> Cont r bSource

Apply a function to transform the continuation passed to a CPS computation.

```
runCont (withCont f m) = runCont m . f
```

The ContT monad transformer

newtype ContT r m aSource

The continuation monad transformer. Can be used to add continuation handling to other monads.

Constructors

ContT
Fields runContT :: (a -> m r) -> m r

Instances

MonadTrans (ContT r)
Monad (ContT r m)
Functor (ContT r m)
Applicative (ContT r m)
MonadIO m => MonadIO (ContT r m)

mapContT :: (m r -> m r) -> ContT r m a -> ContT r m aSource

Apply a function to transform the result of a continuation-passing computation.

runContT (mapContT f m) = f . runContT m

withContT :: ((b -> m r) -> a -> m r) -> ContT r m a -> ContT r m bSource

Apply a function to transform the continuation passed to a CPS computation.

runContT (withContT f m) = runContT m . f

callCC :: ((a -> ContT r m b) -> ContT r m a) -> ContT r m aSource

callCC (call-with-current-continuation) calls its argument function, passing it the current continuation. It provides an escape continuation mechanism for use with continuation monads. Escape continuations one allow to abort the current computation and return a value immediately. They achieve a similar effect to throwError and catchError within an ErrorT monad. The advantage of this function over calling return is that it makes the continuation explicit, allowing more flexibility and better control.

The standard idiom used with callCC is to provide a lambda-expression to name the continuation. Then calling the named continuation anywhere within its scope will escape from the computation, even if it is many layers deep within nested computations.

Lifting other operations

liftLocal :: Monad m => m r' -> ((r' -> r') -> m r -> m r) -> (r' -> r') -> ContT r m a -> ContT r m aSource

liftLocal ask local yields a local function for ContT r m.