On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 21:22 -0200, Andre Nathan wrote:
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 17:33 -0200, Andre Nathan wrote:
Hello (Newbie question ahead :)
Thanks everyone for the great suggestions. The code is much cleaner now (not to mention it works :)
This is the first non-tutorial program I'm writing and all this monad stuff is easier than I thought it would be. I think newbies like me tend to get scared after reading all those monad tutorials and maybe give up before actually trying to use them, and don't realize they're more like... I don't know... warm fuzzy things? ;)
[I'm talking about my own experience here... I've given up many times while trying to learn all this, but at least this time it seems to be working better.]
Have you read Wadler's papers? http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/topics/monads.html In particular one of "The essence of functional programming" or "Monads for Functional Programming"? If not, I think you'll find them better in every way* than any "tutorial" despite being written 15 years ago. * And I do mean -every- way; they are also more entertaining and easier to read.