Re: [Haskell-beginners] Re: monad nomad gonad gomad

Hi prad! Reading the recent threads about Monads I decided to put my learning experience online. It might be of use to someone (maybe you?). http://codingcactus.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/writemonad1/ Regards, Thomas On 15.08.2010 19:52, prad wrote:

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:43:09 +0200 Ertugrul Soeylemez wrote:

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I'm not sure whether you are reading our posts, but we have explained in detail the difference. Once understood, you won't get errors like that anymore.

As a well meant suggestion, you have to actually read the answers to your posts, even if they are long.

ertugrul,

believe me i read the posts (more than a few times) - especially yours in fact and am very appreciative. however, it takes me a while to understand what's going on - even to connect similar ideas together. i certainly don't mind long posts either, but i am still having difficulties putting the ideas together. i tend to be a bit slow anyway and keep thinking in python terms.

i intend to respond once i understand the ideas better. for instance, what you wrote here made sense to me:

======== let readBlahTxt = readFile "blah.txt" content<- readBlahTxt

This should show the difference more clearly. ========

however, i still can't quite connect it to the idea of what it has to do with getting monad data out of a monad and into the pure realm. late last night, though, i was able to do so, but it took while.

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Posting essentially the same questions over and over gets you nowhere.

agreed and i apologize. my problem is that i don't even see that it is the same question. as you have pointed out once before, "You're still thinking way too complicated."

i think what happens is i keep trying different things over and over again. that affects my thinking no doubt. i should likely think more and try less.

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A monad is just a way to combine computations.

this wasn't clear to me till now even though i had read your continuing exchange with kyle and the example both of you were discussing regarding>>= (and i had read up on the operator and even tried it).

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I don't like to mention my own one

i would very much like to see yours.

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I agree with Brent

i think brent's delightful blog post describes my present dilemmas ... except i haven't quite gotten to the point of being able to say "monads are burritos" ... so i think there is likely still hope for me. ;)