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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+ <maintainer type="project">
+ <email>haskell@gentoo.org</email>
+ </maintainer>
+ <longdescription>
+ Haskell 98 part of a monad transformer library, inspired by the paper
+ \"Functional Programming with Overloading and Higher-Order Polymorphism\",
+ by Mark P Jones, in /Advanced School of Functional Programming/, 1995
+ (&lt;http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mpj/pubs/springschool.html&gt;).
+
+ This part contains the monad transformer class, the concrete monad
+ transformers, operations and liftings. It can be used on its own
+ in Haskell 98 code, or with the monad classes in the @monads-fd@ or
+ @monads-tf@ packages, which automatically lift operations introduced
+ by monad transformers through other transformers.
+ </longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>