You are nearing the end of the book, and it is pulling out some more advanced concepts on you. I didn't understand applicatives until a bit later, and you certainly don't need to understand them to code reasonable haskell. Nonetheless, they exist and are used quite a bit and so it is worthwhile to present them.

It may help you to pull out ghci and start messing with bits of code as you read so that you can get a feel for it intuitively.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Frank <frankdmartinez@gmail.com> wrote:

About "Learn You a Haskell ...", is it My imagination or is chapter 11 absurdly long and/or thick? I can (and have) read a 100+ page U.S. Supreme Court ruling, readily understand it, and be able to explain it in plain English, with next to zero trouble. I spend every work day reading, parsing, interpreting, and using, the ISO C++ standard. I taught My undergraduate Physics IV class while simultaneously taking it. Yet, chapter 11 feels as if it goes on and on to the point I easily forget what I read just a few lines before, rendering comprehension of the same an almost Sisyphean task. Is it just Me? Am I just tired? Is there an alternative resource for understanding the concepts that particular chapter presents?

Sincerely,
Frank D. Martinez

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