On 17/12/2010 12:59 AM, Gregg Reynolds wrote:
This is a little off-topic, since it isn't specifically about Haskell, but since Haskell is the home of the monad tutorial it isn't completely irrelevant. The monad tutorial genre is well-known; it's often written somebody who has just learned the concept trying to explain it, often in highly imaginative terms (e.g. "a monad is just like a giant squid, with special tentacles"). I propose "monad co-tutorial" for attempts, often by an amateur (e.g. me) to work out how a monad appears in an unexpected place.
I've been off work all week due to illness, and I feel rotten. But this paragraph gave me a much-needed giggle. Thanks for that! Never mind monoids in the category of endofunctors. The only endofunctor I'm looking for is the one from the category is miserable, virus-ridden humans to the category of people who feel half human. >_<