Briefly correct ExceptT mentions into Handler (#693)

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## The `Handler` monad
At the heart of the handlers is the monad they run in, namely `ExceptT ServantErr IO`
([haddock documentation for `ExceptT`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/mtl-2.2.1/docs/Control-Monad-Except.html#t:ExceptT)), which is aliased as `Handler`.
At the heart of the handlers is the monad they run in, namely a newtype `Handler` around `ExceptT ServantErr IO`
([haddock documentation for `ExceptT`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/mtl-2.2.1/docs/Control-Monad-Except.html#t:ExceptT)).
One might wonder: why this monad? The answer is that it is the
simplest monad with the following properties:
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The module [`Control.Monad.Except`](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/mtl-2.2.1/docs/Control-Monad-Except.html#t:ExceptT)
from which `ExceptT` comes is worth looking at.
Perhaps most importantly, `ExceptT` is an instance of `MonadError`, so
Perhaps most importantly, `ExceptT` and `Handler` are an instances of `MonadError`, so
`throwError` can be used to return an error from your handler (whereas `return`
is enough to return a success).
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### Performing IO
Another important instance from the list above is `MonadIO m => MonadIO
(ExceptT e m)`.
Another important instances from the list above are `MonadIO m => MonadIO
(ExceptT e m)`, and therefore also `MonadIO Handler` as there is `MonadIO IO` instance..
[`MonadIO`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/transformers-0.4.3.0/docs/Control-Monad-IO-Class.html)
is a class from the **transformers** package defined as:
@ -646,8 +646,7 @@ class Monad m => MonadIO m where
liftIO :: IO a -> m a
```
The `IO` monad provides a `MonadIO` instance. Hence for any type
`e`, `ExceptT e IO` has a `MonadIO` instance. So if you want to run any kind of
So if you want to run any kind of
IO computation in your handlers, just use `liftIO`:
``` haskell
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In the first case, each handler receives the *userid* argument. In the latter,
the whole `Server` takes the *userid* and has handlers that are just
computations in `ExceptT`, with no arguments. In other words:
computations in `Handler`, with no arguments. In other words:
``` haskell
server8 :: Server UserAPI3
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Let's start with `readerToHandler'`. We obviously have to run the `Reader`
computation by supplying it with a `String`, like `"hi"`. We get an `a` out
from that and can then just `return` it into `ExceptT`. We can then just wrap
from that and can then just `return` it into `Handler`. We can then just wrap
that function with the `NT` constructor to make it have the fancier type.
``` haskell