Re: [Haskell-cafe] Linguistic hair-splitting

Luke Palmer wrote:

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Jochem Berndsen wrote:

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Now, here's the question: Is is correct to say that [3, 5, 8] is a monad? In what sense would this be a monad? I don't quite get your question.

I think the question is this: if m is a monad, then what do you call a thing of type m Int, or m Whatever.

Ah yes, I see. It's probably the most common to call this a "monadic value" or "monadic action". As Daniel pointed out, the type constructor itself is called a "monad" (e.g., Maybe). Jochem -- Jochem Berndsen | jochem@functor.nl