Design Thought-Process

This program will generate a random number, determine whether that random number is greater than or less to a hard-coded value (to simulate a domain idea) and then print its results.

Level 4 / Core

We'll first define the types we'll be using throughout our program. Since the only domain-specifc idea we want to model is a hard-coded number that has no properties or relationships with other values, this will be simple:

Level 3 / Domain

The program consists of 3 steps:

1. generate a random integer
2. get the hardcoded integer value from the global configuration
3. log whether the random integer is less than, equal to, or greater than our hard-coded integer

Level 2 / API

The "effects" or "capabilities" we need to run this program are relatively simple:

• The capability to generate a random Int value (Note: this random number generator does not need cryptography-level security)
• The capability to send a message to the user
• The capability to get the hard-coded value from the global configuration

Level 1 / Infrastructure

These two capabilities can be obtained by the runtime system:

• The random number generation can be done via the Effect.Random (randomInt) function
• For this program, we will only "send a message to the user" in one way: log it to the console. In future projects, we could also use Halogen (or React) to print a message to our web app.

Getting the hard-coded value requires us to use a ReaderT-like approach to getting that value.

Level 0 / Machine Code

Production: we'll use Effect as our base monad to run the code