[Haskell-cafe] Re: Practical introduction to monads

David Roundy writes:

A very nice simple starting monad from the Prelude to consider when thinking about these things is Maybe.

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It took me a long time before I realized I could do this,

Wow, that's a really nice example.

For more complicated practical examples (and only sporadically documented), you could look at some of the darcs source code. [...]

Hmm, I've had on my list to look at the source of Darcs (and Pugs) as nice "real-life" large-scale programs. I'm not sure I'm ready yet, but maybe I should see how I go... Thanks for the comments, Paul. -- Heck: the place you go to you don't believe in Gosh. -- WinXPNews reader Mark G.