Re: [Haskell-cafe] Wow Monads!

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"DM" == David McClain writes:

MD> Anyone else have Lisp experience using Monads? Did it offer some major MD> enhancements for you? In Lisp, I don't think the abstraction buys you much, because all the functionality you need (state, exceptions, runtime, etc) are always available to all expressions. They become an excellent way of representing "extensible composition" in a pure language that otherwise could not allow those things, but I don't see that you need it for an untyped language like Lisp. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2