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The Error monad.

The error monad is a concretization of the result monad with the error type fixed to Error.t, aka Or_error Monad

module type S = sig ... end
module T (M : Monad) : sig ... end
module Make (M : Monad) : S with type 'a t := 'a T(M).t and type 'a m := 'a T(M).m and type 'a e := 'a T(M).e and type err := Core_kernel.Error.t

Make(M) wraps M into the Error monad.

include S with type 'a t = 'a Core_kernel.Or_error.t and type 'a m = 'a and type 'a e = 'a Core_kernel.Or_error.t and type err := Core_kernel.Error.t
include S with type 'a t = 'a Core_kernel.Or_error.t with type 'a m = 'a with type 'a e = 'a Core_kernel.Or_error.t with type err := Core_kernel.Error.t
include Trans.S with type 'a t = 'a Core_kernel.Or_error.t with type 'a m = 'a with type 'a e = 'a Core_kernel.Or_error.t
type 'a t = 'a Core_kernel.Or_error.t
type 'a m = 'a
type 'a e = 'a Core_kernel.Or_error.t
val lift : 'a m -> 'a t

lifts inner monad into the resulting monad

val run : 'a t -> 'a e

runs the computation

include Monad with type 'a t := 'a t
val void : 'a t -> unit t

void m computes m and discrards the result.

val sequence : unit t list -> unit t

sequence xs computes a sequence of computations xs in the left to right order.

val forever : 'a t -> 'b t

forever xs creates a computationt that never returns.

module Fn : sig ... end

Various function combinators lifted into the Kleisli category.

module Pair : sig ... end

The pair interface lifted into the monad.

module Triple : sig ... end

The triple interface lifted into a monad.

module Lift : sig ... end

Lifts functions into the monad.

module Exn : sig ... end

Interacting between monads and language exceptions

module Collection : sig ... end

Lifts collection interface into the monad.

module List : Collection.S with type 'a t := 'a list

The Monad.Collection.S interface for lists

module Seq : Collection.S with type 'a t := 'a Core_kernel.Sequence.t

The Monad.Collection.S interface for sequences

include Syntax.S with type 'a t := 'a t
val (>=>) : ('a -> 'b t) -> ('b -> 'c t) -> 'a -> 'c t

f >=> g is fun x -> f x >>= g

val (!!) : 'a -> 'a t

!!x is return x

val (!$) : ('a -> 'b) -> 'a t -> 'b t

!$f is Lift.unary f

val (!$$) : ('a -> 'b -> 'c) -> 'a t -> 'b t -> 'c t

!$$f is Lift.binary f

val (!$$$) : ('a -> 'b -> 'c -> 'd) -> 'a t -> 'b t -> 'c t -> 'd t

!$$$f is Lift.ternary f

val (!$$$$) : ('a -> 'b -> 'c -> 'd -> 'e) -> 'a t -> 'b t -> 'c t -> 'd t -> 'e t

!$$$$f is Lift.quaternary f

val (!$$$$$) : ('a -> 'b -> 'c -> 'd -> 'e -> 'f) -> 'a t -> 'b t -> 'c t -> 'd t -> 'e t -> 'f t

!$$$$$f is Lift.quinary f

include Syntax.Let.S with type 'a t := 'a t
val let* : 'a t -> ('a -> 'b t) -> 'b t

let* r = f x in b is f x >>= fun r -> b

val and* : 'a t -> 'b t -> ('a * 'b) t

monoidal product

val let+ : 'a t -> ('a -> 'b) -> 'b t

let+ r = f x in b is f x >>| fun r -> b

val and+ : 'a t -> 'b t -> ('a * 'b) t

monoidal product

include Core_kernel.Monad.S with type 'a t := 'a t
val (>>=) : 'a t -> ('a -> 'b t) -> 'b t

t >>= f returns a computation that sequences the computations represented by two monad elements. The resulting computation first does t to yield a value v, and then runs the computation returned by f v.

val (>>|) : 'a t -> ('a -> 'b) -> 'b t

t >>| f is t >>= (fun a -> return (f a)).

module Monad_infix : sig ... end
val bind : 'a t -> f:('a -> 'b t) -> 'b t

bind t ~f = t >>= f

val return : 'a -> 'a t

return v returns the (trivial) computation that returns v.

val map : 'a t -> f:('a -> 'b) -> 'b t

map t ~f is t >>| f.

val join : 'a t t -> 'a t

join t is t >>= (fun t' -> t').

val ignore_m : 'a t -> unit t

ignore_m t is map t ~f:(fun _ -> ()). ignore_m used to be called ignore, but we decided that was a bad name, because it shadowed the widely used Caml.ignore. Some monads still do let ignore = ignore_m for historical reasons.

val all : 'a t list -> 'a list t
val all_unit : unit t list -> unit t

Like all, but ensures that every monadic value in the list produces a unit value, all of which are discarded rather than being collected into a list.

module Let_syntax : sig ... end

These are convenient to have in scope when programming with a monad:

module Let : Syntax.Let.S with type 'a t := 'a t

Monadic operators, see Monad.Syntax.S for more.

module Syntax : Syntax.S with type 'a t := 'a t

Monadic operators, see Monad.Syntax.S for more.

include Fail.S with type 'a t := 'a t with type 'a error = Core_kernel.Error.t
type 'a error = Core_kernel.Error.t

a type of error

val fail : _ error -> 'a t

fail err diverges the computation, possibly providing an extra information in a value of type _ error.

val catch : 'a t -> (_ error -> 'a t) -> 'a t

catch m f if m diverges with some bottom value err, the f err is a result of the whole computation, otherwise returns m.

val failf : ('a, Stdlib.Format.formatter, unit, unit -> 'b t) Core_kernel.format4 -> 'a

failf "<fmt>" <args> () constructs an error message using the specified format description and returns a computation that will result in the constructed error.

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