STM for CPS

I am trying to manually code up some simple programs using a -> STM () as a continuation type...
And, well, I've stumbled upon some problem with types. Consider a type for a cons list expressed in CPS:

type List a = ((STM (), (a, List a) -> STM ()) -> STM ())

The first STM () gets executed in case of Nil, the second in case of Cons (getting a pair of car and cdr).

Unfortunately, this type fails to check in Haskell. I have to grok yet why, and how to work around it. I would hate to use data:

data List a = List ((STM (), (a, List a) -> STM ()) -> STM ())

as this would reduce clarity by boxing unboxing. Compare:

makeNil :: List a
makeNil (caseNil, _) = caseNil

and

makeNil :: List a
makeNil = List $ \(caseNil, _)->caseNil

Then again, if I shoot for terseness, then nothing beats:

makeNil :: List a
makeNil = List fst

Envisioning code generation for algebraic data types, I arrive to:

type Cont a = a -> STM ()

type CaseNil = Cont ()
type CaseCons a = Cont (a, List a)
data List a = List {unList :: Cont (CaseNil, CaseCons a)}

makeNil :: () -> List a
makeNil payLoad = List  $ \(caseNil, _) -> caseNil payLoad

makeCons :: (a, List a) -> List a
makeCons payLoad = List $ \(_, caseCons) -> caseCons payLoad

Hmm, I should consider using currying, after all...