Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monad explanation

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Tymur Porkuian <shooshpanchick@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

You've just described a Functor rather than a Monad. :-) -- Dan