Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monad pronounced like gonad?

Andrew Coppin writes: (snip)

More curiosely, that (>>=) function. Why is the Haskell name for it (>>=), and why is it pronounced "bind"? Neither of these choices make a lot of sense to me... (snip)

I don't know the answer, but it seems okay to me because I think of monads as being about sequenced computation with >> indicating the flow from return value of one going into the arguments of the next, and the = indicating that we do bother making a constant equal to that return value as an argument in the next (it's on the next's side of the >>) instead of throwing it away. The functions are bound together (hence 'bind') by the >> or >>= as being consecutive steps in the sequence of the computation we are doing. -- Mark