Re: Proposal: add replay function to Control.Monad.Cont.Class

Yeah

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 12:16 PM Edward Kmett <[email protected]> wrote:

> I rather like label. +1 from me.
>
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 1:25 AM Tom Ellis <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 03:25:16AM +0000, Alexandre Esteves wrote:
>> > replay :: MonadCont m => m (m a)
>> > replay = callCC $ pure . fix
>> >
>> > Using this in a do-notation block allows one to bind a name to the
>> > sub-block that starts immediately after.
>> > I reached for continuations to try to get this behavior for use with
>> > recursive flows without disrupting the reading of the main forward flow
>> and
>> > found how to do it in https://jsdw.me/posts/haskell-cont-monad/ under
>> the
>> > name "goto".
>> >
>> > While "goto" is as familiar as a name can be, I feel "replay" more
>> > accurately conveys, that you can only 'go back', by stating what
>> actually
>> > is happening - that a sub-block we're currently evaluating is replayed
>> from
>> > its beginning.
>>
>> Looks like a "label" more than a "goto" to me.  Would "label" be a
>> good name?
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