Gabriella439 / Gabriella439/turtle
Abstracting command return types
- Dominant language
- Haskell
- Stars
- 978
- Forks
- 94
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
I'm finding my code is doing a lot of this:
```haskell
o1 <- shellStrict cmd1 empty
case o1 of
(ExitFailure, stderr) -> handle err
(ExitSuccess, stdout) -> do
o2 <- shellStrict cmd2 empty
case o2 of
(ExitFailure, stderr) -> handle err
(ExitSuccess, stdout) -> do
...
```
I'd like to abstract this and am wondering why Tuple is used for `procStrict`/`shellStrict` instead of the Either monad, as with `inprocWithErr`/`inshellWithErr`?
I'm not a shell programmer, so I very well may be missing the intended use case.
Here's a related discussion in the context of `shell`:
[Stack Overflow - Composing ExitCodes in Turtle.](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33225573/composing-exitcodes-in-turtle-why-is-there-no-monad-monad-transformer-instance)
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
Research direction
Start by comparing the return types of procStrict and shellStrict with inprocWithErr and inshellWithErr. Read the linked discussion about composing ExitCodes in Turtle to understand the existing trade-offs. Done means the project has an agreed direction for abstracting command-result composition, but the issue does not identify files or tests to change.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- haskell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100