Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monad explanation

For me, the key to understanding monads was that monad is "a value that know how to apply functions to itself". Or, more correctly, a container that knows how to apply functions to whatever is inside it. Before understanding this I read a lot of tutorials that presented monads as computations, IO sequencing structures, side effects encapsulation mechanisms, but it was a little bit too abstract, even though now