Re: [PATCH 3/5] gnu: Add ghc-data-access-transformers.

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:
>>> +    (synopsis "Use Accessor to access state in transformers State monad")
>>
>> I can’t parse “transformers State monad”, but maybe it’s just me, or is
>> it missing a word, like “transformers of the State monad”, “State monad
>> transformers”?
>
> The way I understand it is: "transformers State monad" stands for the
> transformer monad called StateT, itself a monad.  But I'll let you or
> a native English speaker decide about the grammatical correctness of
> the synopsis provided by the author :-)

“transformers” is a package providing monad transformers.  But even
after looking at the code I can’t quite make sense of the synopsis :)

It provides functions that take accessors and return State and
Read-Write-State monad transformers.

~~ Ricardo