On May 10, 2010, at 05:51 , Milind Patil wrote:
There seems to something special about (>>=) apart from its type. And whats (Monad ((->) b))? I am new to Haskell and I may have gaps in my understanding of type inference in Haskell.
Everyone else having answered the first question, I'll take this one: ((->) r) is the monad of functions with a single argument (and therefore all functions, as Haskell curries all functions: that is, "f a b c" is a function which takes an a and returns a function that takes a b, which in turn produces a function that takes a c and produces the final result). It's also known as the Reader monad. The syntax is the function form of the section (r ->) (which I think is otherwise illegal, since -> is actually syntax rather than an operator); understand this as a partial application of (r -> x), a function which takes an r and produces an x. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH