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Haskell Design Patterns: Take your Haskell and functional programming skills to the next level by exploring new idioms and design patterns

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Haskell Design Patterns

Chapter 2. Patterns for I/O

 

"I believe that the monadic approach to programming, in which actions are first class values, is itself interesting, beautiful and modular. In short, Haskell is the world's finest imperative programming language"

 
 --Tackling the Awkward Squad, Simon Peyton Jones

It is remarkable that we can do side-effecting I/O in a pure functional language!

We start this chapter by establishing I/O as a first-class citizen of Haskell. A the bulk of this chapter is concerned with exploring three styles of I/O programming in Haskell.

We start with the most naïve style: imperative style. From there, we move on to the elegant and concise "lazy I/O", only to run into its severe limitations. The way out is the third and last style we explore: iteratee I/O.

As a binding thread, we carry a simple I/O example through all three styles. We will cover the following topics:

  • I/O as a first-class citizen
  • Imperative I/O
  • Lazy I/O
  • The problem with...

I/O as a first class citizen

The IO monad provides the context in which the side effects may occur, and it also allows us to decouple pure code from the I/O code. In this way, side effects are isolated and made explicit. Let's explore the ways in which I/O participates as a first-class citizen of the language:

import System.IO
import Control.Monad
import Control.Applicative

main = do
  h <- openFile "jabberwocky.txt" ReadMode
  line  <- hGetLine h
  putStrLn . show . words $ line
  hClose h

This code looks imperative in style: it seems as if we are assigning values to the h and line objects, reading from a file, and then leaving side effects with the putStrLn function.

The openFile and hGetLine functions are I/O actions that return a file handle and string, respectively:

  openFile :: FilePath -> IOMode -> IO Handle
  hGetLine ::             Handle -> IO String

The hClose and putStrLn functions are I/O actions that return nothing in particular:

  putStrLn :: String...

Imperative I/O

Even though the Haskell I/O code is purely functional, this does not prevent us from writing imperative style I/O code. Let's start by printing all the lines of the file:

import System.IO
import qualified Data.ByteString as B
import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as B8
import Data.Char (chr)

main = do
  h <- openFile "jabberwocky.txt" ReadMode
  loop h
  hClose h
  where
    loop h' = do   
     isEof <- hIsEOF h'
    if isEof
      then putStrLn "DONE..."
      else do
        line  <- hGetLine h'
        print $ words line
        loop h'

Instead of the hGetLine function, let's use a Data.ByteString.hGet function to read from the file in chunks of 8 bytes:

  chunk  <- B.hGet h' 8
  
  print . words $ show chunk
  –- vs
  –- line  <- hGetLine h'
  –- print $ words line

The splitting of a chunk into words is not meaningful anymore. We need to accumulate the chunks until we reach...

Lazy I/O

Of the three main glues of Haskell (HOFs, the type system, and laziness), laziness is different in that it is not a concrete thing in the language, but is instead related to the way the code will be evaluated in the runtime. Laziness is something that we have to know about rather than something we can always see in the code.

Of course, laziness does show in the language, for example, wherever we want to enforce strict evaluation, as with the sequence function:

main = do
  –- lazy IO stream
  let ios = map putStrLn ["this", "won't", "run"]
  
  putStrLn "until ios is 'sequenced'..."
  sequence_ ios –- perform actions

Where:

  sequence_  :: [IO ()] -> IO ()
  sequence_  =  foldr (>>) (return ())

The sequence_ function discards the action results because the (>>) operator discards the results.

In contrast, the sequence function retains the results:

main = do
  h <- openFile "jabberwocky.txt"...

The problems with lazy I/O

Let's use the hGetLine function alongside the hGetContents function:

main = do
  h <- openFile "jabberwocky.txt" ReadMode
  firstLine <- hGetLine h     -- returns a string
  contents  <- hGetContents h -- returns a "promise"

  hClose h           -– close file
  print $ words firstLine
  print $ words contents

We close the file before consuming the firstLine string and the contents stream:

  print $ words firstLine
    ["'Twas","brillig,","and","the","slithy","toves"]
  print $ words contents
    []

The contents is a live stream that gets turned off when the file is closed. The firstLine is an eager string and survives the closing of the file.

The preceding example points to some serious problems with the lazy I/O:

  • The order of the side effects is tied to the order of the lazy evaluation. Because the order of lazy evaluation is not explicit, the order of effects...

Resource management with bracket

So far, we have been explicitly opening and closing files. This is what we call explicit resource management:

main = do
  h <- (openFile "jabberwocky.txt" ReadMode)
  useResource h
  hClose h
where
    useResource h'
         = (stream h') >>= mapM_ putStrLn
    stream h' 
         = hGetContents h' >>= return . lines

Let's look at some higher level abstractions to capture this pattern: open resource, use it, in some way clean up resource. The crudest solution is to just ignore the problem and rely on the garbage collector for the cleanup:

main = do
  contents <- readFile "jabberwocky.txt"
  mapM_ putStrLn (lines contents)

The readFile function encapsulates the file handle, which is then garbage collected when the contents function is garbage collected or when it has been entirely consumed. This is very poor resource management!

It would be more idiomatic to use the wrapper function withFile:

main...

I/O as a first class citizen

The IO Monad provides the context in which side effects may occur, and it also allows us to decouple pure code from I/O code. In this way, side effects are isolated and made explicit. Let's explore the ways in which I/O participates as a first-class citizen of the language:

import System.IO
import Control.Monad
import Control.Applicative

main = do
  h <- openFile "jabberwocky.txt" ReadMode
  line  <- hGetLine h
  putStrLn . show . words $ line
  hClose h

This code looks imperative in style: it seems as if we are assigning values to h and line, reading from a file, and then leaving side effects with the putStrLn function.

The openFile and hGetLine functions are I/O actions that return a file handle and string, respectively:

  openFile :: FilePath -> IOMode -> IO Handle
  hGetLine ::             Handle -> IO String

The hClose and putStrLn functions are I/O actions that return nothing in particular:

  putStrLn :: String -> IO ()
  hClose   :: Handle...

Imperative I/O

Even though Haskell I/O code is purely functional, this does not prevent us from writing imperative style I/O code. Let's start by printing all the lines of the file:

import System.IO
import qualified Data.ByteString as B
import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as B8
import Data.Char (chr)

main = do
  h <- openFile "jabberwocky.txt" ReadMode
  loop h
  hClose h
  where
    loop h' = do   
     isEof <- hIsEOF h'
     if isEof
      then putStrLn "DONE..."
      else do
        line  <- hGetLine h'
        print $ words line
        loop h'

Instead of the hGetLine function, let's use a Data.ByteString.hGet function to read from the file in chunks of 8 bytes:

  chunk  <- B.hGet h' 8
  
  print . words $ show chunk
  –- vs
  –- line  <- hGetLine h'
  –- print $ words line

The splitting of a chunk into words is not meaningful anymore. We need to accumulate the chunks until we reach the end of a line and then capture the accumulated line and possible remainder:

data...
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  • • Expand your understanding of Haskell and functional programming, one line of executable code at a time

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Design patterns and idioms can widen our perspective by showing us where to look, what to look at, and ultimately how to see what we are looking at. At their best, patterns are a shorthand method of communicating better ways to code (writing less, more maintainable, and more efficient code) This book starts with Haskell 98 and through the lens of patterns and idioms investigates the key advances and programming styles that together make "modern Haskell". Your journey begins with the three pillars of Haskell. Then you'll experience the problem with Lazy I/O, together with a solution. You'll also trace the hierarchy formed by Functor, Applicative, Arrow, and Monad. Next you'll explore how Fold and Map are generalized by Foldable and Traversable, which in turn is unified in a broader context by functional Lenses. You'll delve more deeply into the Type system, which will prepare you for an overview of Generic programming. In conclusion you go to the edge of Haskell by investigating the Kind system and how this relates to Dependently-typed programming

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If you’re a Haskell programmer with a firm grasp of the basics and ready to move more deeply into modern idiomatic Haskell programming, then this book is for you.

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  • Understand the relationship between the “Gang of Four” OOP Design Patterns and Haskell.
  • Try out three ways of Streaming I/O: imperative, Lazy, and Iteratee based.
  • Explore the pervasive pattern of Composition: from function composition through to high-level composition with Lenses.
  • Synthesize Functor, Applicative, Arrow and Monad in a single conceptual framework.
  • Follow the grand arc of Fold and Map on lists all the way to their culmination in Lenses and Generic Programming.
  • Get a taste of Type-level programming in Haskell and how this relates to dependently-typed programming.
  • Retrace the evolution, one key language extension at a time, of the Haskell Type and Kind systems.
  • Place the elements of modern Haskell in a historical framework.

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I enjoyed reading over this book, Haskell Design Patterns helps approach real world situations that you will experience at one time or another as a programmer. Recursion was covered nicely, my favorite functions are the I/O functions which are covered in Chapter 2.
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I'm blown away by the things I'm learning, and the great way that concepts are explained. Examples: Currying and Tail Recursion. I thought I knew all there was to about currying - I learned it in my CS undergrad after all. But oh, it's totally possible to write functions in an uncurried style by wrapping the parameters in a tuple. That never occurred to me. And then the follow-up with advantages and disadvantages of that with a note about what's idiomatic. Perfect. The book doesn't insult the intelligence of the reader, who's most likely been doing development in other languages.And Tail Recursion --- I didn't quite remember how it works, and sort of had been ignoring this as an 'implementation detail' of programming libraries. But here the explanation and unrolled call stack make it plain of day what's happening, and what the difference is.Lol, two years in to Haskell development, I consider myself to be just an "advanced beginner".
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  4. Choose the format you wish to purchase the title in; if you order the Print Book, you get a free eBook copy of the same title. 
  5. Proceed with the checkout process (payment to be made using Credit Card, Debit Cart, or PayPal)
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  • If you experience a problem with using or installing Adobe Reader, the contact Adobe directly.
  • To view the errata for the book, see www.packtpub.com/support and view the pages for the title you have.
  • To view your account details or to download a new copy of the book go to www.packtpub.com/account
  • To contact us directly if a problem is not resolved, use www.packtpub.com/contact-us
What eBook formats do Packt support? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

Our eBooks are currently available in a variety of formats such as PDF and ePubs. In the future, this may well change with trends and development in technology, but please note that our PDFs are not Adobe eBook Reader format, which has greater restrictions on security.

You will need to use Adobe Reader v9 or later in order to read Packt's PDF eBooks.

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  • You can get the information you need immediately
  • You can easily take them with you on a laptop
  • You can download them an unlimited number of times
  • You can print them out
  • They are copy-paste enabled
  • They are searchable
  • There is no password protection
  • They are lower price than print
  • They save resources and space
What is an eBook? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

Packt eBooks are a complete electronic version of the print edition, available in PDF and ePub formats. Every piece of content down to the page numbering is the same. Because we save the costs of printing and shipping the book to you, we are able to offer eBooks at a lower cost than print editions.

When you have purchased an eBook, simply login to your account and click on the link in Your Download Area. We recommend you saving the file to your hard drive before opening it.

For optimal viewing of our eBooks, we recommend you download and install the free Adobe Reader version 9.