import System.Console.Readline import Data.Maybe import Control.Monad import Control.Monad.Trans import Control.Monad.Maybe -- 'MaybeIO' is the type of computations which do IO, and which may fail. type MaybeIO = MaybeT IO -- 'readline' already has type 'String -> IO (Maybe String)'; we just need -- to wrap it. maybeReadLine :: String -> MaybeIO String maybeReadLine prompt = MaybeT (readline prompt) -- Fail if 'str' equals "quit". failIfQuit :: (Monad m) => String -> m () failIfQuit str = when (str == "quit") (fail "Quitting") -- This task may fail in several places. Try typing Control-D or "quit" at -- any prompt. concatTwoInputs :: MaybeIO () concatTwoInputs = do s1 <- maybeReadLine "String 1> " failIfQuit s1 s2 <- maybeReadLine "String 2> " failIfQuit s2 liftIO (putStrLn ("Concatenated: " ++ s1 ++ s2)) -- Loop until failure. main :: IO () main = do result <- runMaybeT concatTwoInputs if isNothing result then putStrLn "Bye!" else main