Re: [Haskell-cafe] On the verge of ... giving up!

G'day all. Vimal quoted someone else as saying:

Monads in programming seem to be the most mysterious notion of the century.

I agree with the "hair shirt" talk on this. I found understanding monads no harder than understanding objects, starting from a comparable level of ignorance. I think the only difference is that "object" is a more accessible name than "monad". instance WarmFuzzyThing IO where ... Cheers, Andrew Bromage