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The join function is the conventional monad join operator. It is used to remove one level of monadic structure, projecting its bound argument into the outer level.


A common use of join is to run an IO computation returned from an STM transaction, since STM transactions can't perform IO directly. Recall that
atomically :: STM a -> IO a
is used to run STM transactions atomically. So, by specializing the types of atomically and join to
atomically :: STM (IO b) -> IO (IO b)
join       :: IO (IO b)  -> IO b
we can compose them as
join . atomically :: STM (IO b) -> IO b
to run an STM transaction and the IO action it returns.