3 Jul
2007
3 Jul
'07
3:01 a.m.
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Jonathan Cast wrote:
On Monday 02 July 2007, Andrew Coppin wrote:
What were monads like before they became a Haskell language construct?
Is Haskell's idea of a "monad" actually anywhere close to the original mathematical formalism?
Just being randomly curiose...
Curiosity can be a dangerous thing . . .
Short answer: they're equivalent, or rather, Haskell monads are equivalent to what Haskellers would naturally write when translating mathematical monads into Haskell. ...
How about preserving that mail in a HaskellWiki article?