15 Oct
2007
15 Oct
'07
6:49 a.m.
The really amazing thing about the IO Monad in Haskell is that there *isn't* any magic going on. An level of understanding adequate for using the I/O and State monads stuff (that is, adequate for practically anything analogous to what you might do in another language) goes like this:[...]
Yes, I am at the stage where I can understand most of whats going on, as you described it in your email. I was wondering if understanding Category Theory would help me model situations better. Thats all :) But for now, I guess I will stick with this. Assuming that its a black box and it does what its supposed to do.