28 Jan
2009
28 Jan
'09
3:01 a.m.
in F# they renamed "Monad" to "Workflow",
I don't think this is helpful,
I didn't claim ... at least it's a funny attempt to introduce "warm fuzzy thing" terminology.
it only really works for state-like monads. "Workflow" doesn't make sense at all for [a], for example.
Well, it could be seen as a non-deterministic "workflow" (with none, one or several outcomes). Cf. Wadler: "how to replace failure by a list of successes" http://www.springerlink.com/content/y7450255v2670167/ Best regards, J.W.