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Extending Rust's Effect System (blog.yoshuawuyts.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yes, my thoughts exactly.

This problem is not solved by monads, but by higher kinded types in general in languages like Haskell. They give you a uniform way to be generic over effects like async (Async) vs sync (Identity). Both of these can be treated as (F) for all A. So a generic Into would look like the following, and no special syntax or semantics would be needed. The type system (if sound) would prevent you from misusing a trait like this.

trait Into {
   def into(self): F;
}