Re: [Haskell-cafe] Explaining monads

On 8/14/07, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

I like the very light weight analogy (which works for most practical uses of monads) that a monadic action is a "recipe"

Many introductory programming books present the idea of a program as a recipe. Here's a recipe for computing factorials: fact 0 = 1 fact n = n*fact (n-1) Where do monads come in? -- Dan