Safe Haskell | Safe-Inferred |
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Language | Haskell2010 |
Compatibility layer for Control.Monad.Fail
Documentation
class Monad m => MonadFail (m :: Type -> Type) where #
When a value is bound in do
-notation, the pattern on the left
hand side of <-
might not match. In this case, this class
provides a function to recover.
A Monad
without a MonadFail
instance may only be used in conjunction
with pattern that always match, such as newtypes, tuples, data types with
only a single data constructor, and irrefutable patterns (~pat
).
Instances of MonadFail
should satisfy the following law: fail s
should
be a left zero for >>=
,
fail s >>= f = fail s
If your Monad
is also MonadPlus
, a popular definition is
fail _ = mzero
fail s
should be an action that runs in the monad itself, not an
exception (except in instances of MonadIO
). In particular,
fail
should not be implemented in terms of error
.
Since: base-4.9.0.0